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For any ardent materialism truth is madness.
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Humanity is a petrified fiction hiding from zero, a purgatorial imprisonment of dissolution, but to be stricken with sanctity is to bask in death like a reptile in the sun. God is dead, but more importantly, God is Death. The beginning of the secret is that death is immense.
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Laughter is a communion with the dead, since death is not the object of laughter: it is death itself that finds a voice when we laugh. Laughter is that which is lost to discourse, the haemorrhaging of pragmatics into excitation and filth.
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Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die?
Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
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I drink in your slit and I spread your naked legs; I open them like a book where I read that which kills me.
Georges Bataille, from Je mets mon vit contre ta joue, translation by Nick Land
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