"The only church that illuminates is a burning church."
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Attributed to Durruti in "Dialectical Clarity versus the Misty Conceit of Paradox" by Slavoj Žižek in The Monstrosity of Christ : Paradox or Dialectic? (2009) edited by Creston Davis, p. 287
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Buenaventura Durruti
Buenaventura Durruti (July 14, 1896 – November 20, 1936) was a Spanish-born anarchist, a central figure in Spanish anarchism during the Spanish Civil War.
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