Georges Bataille

I believe that...

I believe that...

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Source:...

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The essence of...

The essence of...

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all...

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Pleasure only starts...

Pleasure only starts...

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with...

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The anguish of...

The anguish of...

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the...

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A judgment about...

A judgment about...

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...

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Crime is a...

Crime is a...

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect,...

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Sanity is the...

Sanity is the...

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly...

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Naturally, love's the...

Naturally, love's the...

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Source: La Somme Ath?ologique, vol....

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Each of us...

Each of us...

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person. . . and a person...

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At man's core...

At man's core...

At man's core there's a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot...

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The sovereign being...

The sovereign being...

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate...

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Life has always...

Life has always...

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in...

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To place oneself...

To place oneself...

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means...

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Sacrifice is nothing...

Sacrifice is nothing...

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Source: The Notion...

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Beauty is desired...

Beauty is desired...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of...

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