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Georges Bataille quote ✍️

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Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of strength; such an expenditure, whether in nature or in man, represents the strongest possible threat. The feelings of admiration and of ecstasy induced by them thus mean that we are concerned to admire them from afar. The sun corresponds to that prudent concern. It is all radiance gigantic loss of heat and light, flame, explosion; but remote from men, who can enjoy in safety and quiet the fruits of this cataclysm. To earth belongs the solidity which sustains houses of stone and the steps of men (at least on its surface, for buried within the depths of the earth is the incandescence of lava).
Georges Bataille Van Gogh As Prometheus distance permanence power stability

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Unscramble GEORGES7-letter words that start with G7-letter words that end in S7-letter words containing EO7-letter words containing ES7-letter words with G and E
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The old plural of Eye.
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NEE
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