WRITERS A-H > librarian, essayist, moralist, poet, novelist > Georges Bataille

Life has always...

Vendor: WRITERS A-H

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.

Source: The Sacred Conspiracy, in Ac?phale, no. 1 (Paris, 1 June 1936; repr. in Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939, ed. by Allan Stoekl, 1985).
-- Georges Bataille, (Sep 10 1897-1962), French librarian, essayist, moralist, poet, novelist; His essays, novels, and poetry expressed his fascination with eroticism, mysticism, and the irrational.


(C)2024 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA