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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.
Georges Bataille
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Georges Bataille
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 10
Died: 1962
Died: July 9
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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
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[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.
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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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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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Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.
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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 total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
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Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.
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In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.
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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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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
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To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
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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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