Punish Temptation

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excess

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moderation

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is a force that directs life always elsewhere. This great exponent of excess inscribes extravagance within an economy that permits escape only at the expense of life itself.

In his frantic attempt to sever sacrifice from an economy of expenditure and return, to liberate negation from the omnipresent encroachment of the recuperative capacity of rationality, to disconnect authenticity from morality, Bataille can only imagine excess as a force that directs life always elsewhere. This great exponent of excess inscribes extravagance within an economy that permits escape only at the expense of life itself.

is a reproach only against those who have no right to it. It has been given a bad name by those who are not sufficiently strong to employ the passions.

Excess is a reproach only against those who have no right to it... and almost all the passions have been brought into 111repute on account of those who were not sufficiently strong to employ them (nietzsche in klossowski 89)

is an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.

In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.

is empowered neither by a sense of adventure and discovery, nor by possibilities and opportunities, nor by healing nor pain due to the boundless and infinite suffering of God.

For Bataille, excess is not empowered by a sense of adventure and discovery, by possibilities and opportunities, by healing as well as pain due to the boundless and infinite suffering of God.'

is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality, a shove to put it on its way... in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse... so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way... in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is most commendable when the excess in question is excessive gratitude.

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. Jean de la Bruyere

is not something that opens the self to an other who understands, nor does it give to an other who needs and demands.

Excess does not open the self to an other who understands... it does not give to an other who needs and demands.

is not something that reaches out. Its disorienting effect makes it essentially aimless. It leads nowhere and cannot be written because it ends in nothing.

. . .Excess does not reach out to find the other in ecstatic acts of mutual recognition and intersubjective enjoyment. The disorienting effect of excess makes it essentially aimless. Excess cannot be followed to the end by Bataille because for him it actually leads nowhere... it cannot be written because it ends in nothing.

excess, n.All

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