"We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it."

-- Georges Bataille

#Ends Quotes #Ecstasy Quotes

“Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.”
“Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.”
“A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.”
“If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.”
“Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.”
“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
“I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.”
“The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.”

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