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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave ...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or tooviolent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations. - Quote by Jean-François Lyotard

…The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain… Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or tooviolent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.

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