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> [What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/what-does-physical-eroticism-signify-if-not-a-violation-of-the-very/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

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> [Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/eroticism-is-the-approval-of-life-unto-death/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

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> [Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/eroticism-cannot-be-entirely-revealed-without-poetry/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

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> [Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/eroticism-is-assenting-to-life-even-in-death/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

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> [Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/eroticism-differs-from-animal-sexuality-in-that-human-sexuality-is/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

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> [Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/eroticism-it-may-be-said-is-assenting-to-life-up-to-the-point-of-death/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

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> [“...being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible for language to reach (this is also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/being-aware-that-the-sacred-quality-hidden-in-the-experience-of/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/i-think-that-knowledge-enslaves-us-that-at-the-base-of-all-knowledge/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [“The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/the-absent-and-inert-girl-hanging-dreamless-from-my-arms-is-no-more/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/pleasure-only-starts-once-the-worm-has-got-into-the-fruit-to-become/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/if-i-want-to-realize-totality-in-my-consciousness-i-have-to-relate/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/our-only-real-pleasure-is-to-squander-our-resources-to-no-purpose/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [ \[F\]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/f-or-academic-men-to-be-happy-the-universe-would-have-to-take-shape/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/i-remain-in-intolerable-non-knowledge-which-has-no-other-way-out-than/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [ \[Zarathustra\] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/zarathustra-never-abandoned-the-watchword-of-not-having-any-end-not/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [“Pathetic creatures on their knees... Tirelessly, naively repeating, "Don't take our word for it! Alas, we're not all that logical. We say God–though in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/pathetic-creatures-on-their-knees-tirelessly-naively-repeating-don-t/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/the-sovereign-being-is-burdened-with-a-servitude-that-crushes-him-and/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/the-total-person-is-first-disclosed-in-areas-of-life-that-are-lived/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/thought-does-not-ennoble-us-and-neither-does-it-differentiate-humans/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/i-enjoyed-the-innocence-of-unhappiness-and-of-helplessness-could-i/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/i-believe-that-truth-has-only-one-face-that-of-a-violent-contradiction/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

> [Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/literature-is-the-rediscovery-of-childhood/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

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