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At Man's Core There Is A Voice That Wants Him Never To Give In To Fear. But If It Is True That In General Man Cannot Give In To Fear, At The Very Least He Postpones Indefinitely The Moment When He Will Have To Confront Himself With The Object Of His Fear... When He Will No Longer Have The Assistance Of Reason As Guaranteed By God, Or When He Will No Longer Have The Assistance Of God Such As Reason Guaranteed. It Is Necessary To Recoil, But It Is Necessary To Leap, And Perhaps One Only Recoils In Order To Leap Better.

Eroticism, It May Be Said, Is Assenting To Life Up To The Point Of Death

Inner Experience ... Is Not Easily Accessible And, Viewed From The Outside By Intelligence, It Would Even Be Necessary To See In It A Sum Of Distinct Operations, Some Intellectual, Others Aesthetic, Yet Others Moral. ... It Is Only From Within, Lived To The Point Of Terror, That It Appears To Unify That Which Discursive Thought Must Separate.

I Remain In Intolerable Non-knowledge, Which Has No Other Way Out Than Ecstasy Itself.

The Preceding Criticism Justifies The Following Definition Of The Entire Human: Human Existence As The Life Of "unmotivated" Celebration, Celebration In All Meaning Of The Word: Laughter, Dancing, Orgy, The Rejection Of Subordination, And Sacrifice That Scornfully Puts Aside Any Consideration Of Ends, Property, And Morality.