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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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Pierre Angélique
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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 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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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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By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.
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[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that each moment of life ought to be motivated. Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.
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Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
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In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.
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Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.
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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
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I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.
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Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.
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How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!
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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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The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
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Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
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The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
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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.
Georges Bataille
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
Georges Bataille
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
Georges Bataille
