"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions."
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Andre Breton, in Georges Bataille Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939, U of Minnesota Press, 1985, p. 41.
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