“For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, lines 33–34.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
Source: Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
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