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Georges Bataille: 'Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.'

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Georges Bataille: 'The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.'

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Georges Bataille: 'Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.'

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Georges Bataille: 'Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.'

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Georges Bataille: 'I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.'

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Georges Bataille: 'Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.'

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Georges Bataille: 'Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'The text is a limited field of possible constructions.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'Testimony gives something to be interpreted.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.'

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