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Inspirational Quotes by Georges Bataille
- Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
- Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
- Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
- A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.
- What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?
- My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.
- How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!
- To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
- Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
- I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.
- Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.
- Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
- The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
- We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
- The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.
- In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.
- Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
- Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
- Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
- You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.
- I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.
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