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Sacrifice is nothing...

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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Source: The Notion of Expenditure, in La Critique Sociale (Paris, Jan. 1933; repr. in Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927 --1939, ed. by Allan Stoekl, 1985).
-- 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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