French - Writer | September 10, 1897 - July 9, 1962
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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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
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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.
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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.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
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Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
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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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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
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