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Georges Bataille Inspirational Quotes (52)

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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
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Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.
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I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.
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The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
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The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.
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Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.
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Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
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Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.
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We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.
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How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
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The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.
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We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
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I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.
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It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.
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Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
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Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.
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The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
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If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.
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A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.
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