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It is through an “intimate cessation of all intellectual operations” that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. … The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, … what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.

— Georges Bataille L’Expérience Intérieure (1943)

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I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.

L’Expérience Intérieure (1943)

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

The difficulty—that contestation must be done in the name of an authority—is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

L’Expérience Intérieure (1943)

All eroticism has a sacramental character.

Erotism: Death and Sensuality (1962)

To choose evil is to choose freedom—“freedom, emancipation from all restraint.”

On Nietzsche (1945)

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