Author: Georges Bataille

Quotes

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

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

- Georges Bataille

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Georges Bataille

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

- Georges Bataille

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.

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.

- Georges Bataille

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