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At man's core there's a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear.

Source: Le Mal dans le Platonisme et le Sadisme, lecture, 1947. Quoted in: Jean-Michel Heimont, On Bataille, Two Values of Sade in Bataille's Text (ed. by Alan Stoekl, 1990).
-- 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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