...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – i… - Jean-François Lyotard

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...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 too violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.

Jean-François Lyotard

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Jean-François Lyotard (10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher and literary theorist.

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