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Georges Bataille

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

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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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Amber Hurdle

"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

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Amber Hurdle

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

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"Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them."
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"Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary."
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"Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."
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"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison."
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"Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love."
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"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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"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
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"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us."
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"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction."
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