Author: Georges Bataille

Quotes

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

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

- 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

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

- Georges Bataille

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

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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