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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Source: Inner Experience, Notes: To Whomever Wishes Truly to Hear Me, sct. 1, 1942.
-- 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.

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