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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.
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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[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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Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
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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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Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.
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To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
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Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
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But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.
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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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Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
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I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.
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I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.
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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
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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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The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
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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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