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

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

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

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

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

- Georges Bataille

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