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

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Source : Georges Bataille (1984). “Violent silence: celebrating Georges Bataille”

Georges Bataille

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“You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.”
“Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...”
“One Sallow does not make Summer.”
“It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.”
“Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.”
“I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.”
“The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force.”

Source : "Dragon in the Dust" by Post Wheeler, (p. 229), 2007.
“I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.”

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