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Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Georges Bataille

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Georges Bataille
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 10
Died: 1962
Died: July 9
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Librarian
Philosopher
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Bilhom
Pierre Angélique
George Bataille
Joruju Bataiyu
G. Bataiyu
Lord Auch
Pierre Angelique
Rebellion
Stronger
Necessary
Nothing

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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
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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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Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.
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Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
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Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.
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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
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To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
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The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
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I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.
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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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