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Literature and Evil

by Georges Bataille

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Aug 04, 2026 12:54PM

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“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

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“Qu'on le prenne de la façon qu'on veut, il faut bien y réfléchir, de nos jours, avant de prendre le métier de poète, car on ne compte plus que bien peu de fous, et il y a une telle pléthore d'esprits raisonnables qu'ils peuvent à eux seuls investir toutes les disciplines, y compris celle de la poésie.”
― Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann, The Nightwatches of Bonaventura

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“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: life, reality, self-discovery, solitude

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“Quand la conscience parviendra à surplomber tous nos secrets, quand de notre malheur sera évacué le dernier vestige de mystère, aurons-nous encore un reste de fièvre et d'exaltation pour contempler la ruine de l'existence et de la poésie ?”
― Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

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“I have no philosophy in which I can move like a fish in water or a bird on the wing. All I have is an endless struggle, every second of my life, between false consolations that only add to my feeling of powerlessness and deepen my despair, and true consolations that bring me momentary freedom. I should probably say the true consolation, because for me only one exists: the one that allows me to know myself as a free human being, within my own boundaries, untouchable.”
― Stig Dagerman, Notre besoin de consolation est impossible à rassasier

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