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Only 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.
- 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…
- Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to…
- Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
- To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing…
- 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…
- We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
- Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
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