decadent_and_depraved reviewed Blue of noon by Georges Bataille
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4 stars
To love life yet hate death is but a folly. One loves life along with death or one does not love life at all. The essence of love itself is its potent prerogative to perish.
I told her very softly, ‘Don’t cry any more. I just had to have you act crazy. I needed it so as not to die.’