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You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.
Georges Bataille
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Georges Bataille
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 10
Died: 1962
Died: July 9
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Bilhom
Pierre Angélique
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How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!
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To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
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What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?
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[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.
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Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.
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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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Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
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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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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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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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A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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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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The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
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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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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
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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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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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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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Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.
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