The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Source: L'Abb? C, pt. 4, The Diary of Chianine (1950).
-- Georges Bataille, (Sep 10 1897-1962), French librarian, essayist, moralist, poet, novelist; His essays, novels, and poetry expressed his fascination with eroticism, mysticism, and the irrational.