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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
Georges Bataille

Born: September 10, 1897
Died: July 9, 1962 (aged 64)
Bio: Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, economics, sociology and history of art.
Known for:
- Histoire de l'œil (1928)
- The Accursed Share
- Inner Experience (1943)
- Death and sensuality (1962)
- The tears of Eros
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