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The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
Georges Bataille
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Georges Bataille
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 10
Died: 1962
Died: July 9
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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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I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?
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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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We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
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The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
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