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

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

- 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

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

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

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

- Georges Bataille

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