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

— Georges Bataille

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

L’Expérience Intérieure (1943)

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)

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others’ ends.

On Nietzsche (1945)

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Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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