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The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.
— Georges Bataille
Philosophy ... finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.
— Georges Bataille
We did not lack modesty - on the contrary - but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
— Georges Bataille
I have in my mind an obscenity so great that I could vomit the most dreadful words and it wouldn't be enough!
— 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
Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
— Georges Bataille
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
— Georges Bataille
The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.
— Georges Bataille
In effect, vice turns common sense upside-down, and he who admits himself to be vicious abides by stigmatizing terms of horror.
— Georges Bataille
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
— Georges Bataille
I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.
— Georges Bataille
the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary to no longer speak
— Georges Bataille
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.
— Georges Bataille
Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
— Georges Bataille
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
— Georges Bataille
A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.
— Georges Bataille
Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
— Georges Bataille
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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.
— Georges Bataille
Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.
— Georges Bataille
The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
— Georges Bataille
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
— Georges Bataille
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
— Georges Bataille
How cruel my suffering is, - no one is more talkative than I am!
— Georges Bataille
Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.
— Georges Bataille
It has always been possible to say "The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling."
— Georges Bataille
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
As for the sphere of thought, it is horror. Yes, it is horror itself.
— Georges Bataille
If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.
— Georges Bataille
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
— Georges Bataille
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
— Georges Bataille
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
— Georges Bataille
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
— Georges Bataille
Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.
— Georges Bataille
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
— Georges Bataille
We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.
— Georges Bataille
The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such
— Georges Bataille
The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune. — Georges Bataille
An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
— Georges Bataille
What seems to be unspeakable weakness can sometimes be just distaste for the generally accepted morality.
— Georges Bataille
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
— Georges Bataille
Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
— Georges Bataille
Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.
— Georges Bataille
Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
— Georges Bataille
I began to willfully indulge in dreams that, with the help of a bottle of wine, became completely mad and were close to being loathsome.
— Georges Bataille
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.
— Georges Bataille
In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.
— Georges Bataille
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
— Georges Bataille
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
— Georges Bataille
Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.
— Georges Bataille
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.
— Georges Bataille
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror
— Georges Bataille
You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.
— Georges Bataille
I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night.
— Georges Bataille
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.
— Georges Bataille
I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.
— Georges Bataille
