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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Georges Bataille
Moving, Light, Essence
"The Dualist Materialism of Georges Bataille". Paper by Denis Hollier. Yale French Studies No. 78 ("On Bataille"), pp. 124-139, www.jstor.org. September 26, 1990.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.