"Eroticism is assenting to life even in death."

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"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them."

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"The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility."

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