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L'expérience intérieure is a book by Georges Bataille first published by Gallimard in 1943 then reedited as part of the fifth volume of Bataille's complete works in 1954. It was translated by as Inner Experience by Leslie Anne Boldt in 1988 for the State University of New York. The first line of the quote below was used by James Dickey as epigraph for his novel Deliverance.

There exists at the base of the human life a principle of insufficiency. Separately each individual imagines the other incompetents or unworthy "to be". A free conversation, scandalmonger expresses a certainty of the vanity of my similar, an apparently petty chattering lets see a blind man tension of the life towards an indefinable top. It implies a voice. But to what you will it be linked?

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• Inner experience