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Georges Bataille Quotes

Georges Bataille quotes

French Writer, Philosopher September 16, 1897 – July 9, 1962

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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
A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms. Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille quote: "Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."
Naturally, love's the most distant possibility. Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille quote: "Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this..."
Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick). Georges Bataille
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. Georges Bataille
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out. Georges Bataille
TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but to help you clarify what you yourself think... You are not any more different from me than your right leg is from your left, but what joins us is THE SLEEP OF REASON—WHICH PRODUCES MONSTERS. —Theory of Religion Georges Bataille
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing. Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille quote: "Eroticism is assenting to life even in death."
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. Georges Bataille
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. Georges Bataille
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. Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille quote: "Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to..."
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille quote: "The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth..."
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. Georges Bataille
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it. Georges Bataille
Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth. Georges Bataille

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