Quotes of Georges Bataille - somelinesforyou

“ The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out. ”

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

“ If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves wit it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known. ”

- Georges Bataille

“ Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader. ”

- Georges Bataille

“ TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but to help you clarify what you yourself think... You are not any more different from me than your right leg is from your left, but what joins us is THE SLEEP OF REASON—WHICH PRODUCES MONSTERS. —Theory of Religion ”

- Georges Bataille

“ I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it. ”

- Georges Bataille

“ At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear… when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed… ”

- Georges Bataille

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

- 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. ”

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

“ Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

“ The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ”

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

“ At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear… when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed… ”

- Georges Bataille

“ 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. ”

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

“ Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. ”

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

“ Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. ”

- Georges Bataille

“ The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ”

- Georges Bataille

“ Naturally, love is the most distant possibility. ”

- Georges Bataille
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