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George Bataille Quotes

«I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.»
Author: George Bataille (Librarian, Writer) | About: Truth | Keywords: contradiction, violent
«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.»
«To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.»
«Naturally, Love's the most distant possibility.»
Author: George Bataille (Librarian, Writer) | Keywords: distant
«Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.»
«Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.»
«Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.»
Author: George Bataille (Librarian, Writer) | About: Crime | Keywords: elude, hides, human species
«finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love»
«Respect is really only a devious route taken by violence.»
Author: George Bataille (Librarian, Writer) | Keywords: devious
«The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these stirrings would take us. They are simply a sign to remind us constantly that death, the rupture of discontinuous individualities to which we cleave in terror, stands there before us more real than life itself.»
Author: George Bataille (Librarian, Writer) | About: Death