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To choose evil is to choose freedom— freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
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It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.
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In previous conditions, extreme states came under the jurisdiction of the arts... People substituted writing (fiction) for what was once spiritual life, poetry (chaotic words) for actual ecstasies. Art constitutes a minor free zone outside action, paying for its freedom by giving up the real world. A heavy price!
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Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
Georges Bataille
Born:
September 10, 1897
Died:
July 9, 1962
(aged 64)
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