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We can’t rely on anything. Except ourselves. Ludicrous responsibility devolves on us, overwhelms us. In every regard, right up the present, people always have relied on each other—or God.

— Georges Bataille On Nietzsche (1945)

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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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