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Inner experience … is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. … It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.

Georges Bataille

The advance of intelligence diminished, as a secondary consequence, the possible in a realm which appeared foreign to intelligence: that of inner experience.
To say diminished is even to say too little. The development of intelligence leads to a drying up of life which, in return, has narrowed intelligence. It is only if I state this principle: inner experience itself is authority that I emerge from this impotence.

Georges Bataille