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One Quotes by 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;…
- A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the…
- I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
- 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…
- 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…
- Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the…
- The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their…
- 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!
- A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next…
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