Starry Heaven Quotes by Georges Bataille

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• Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent…
• A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease…
• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
• I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
• Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
• Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and…
• Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect,…
• The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light…
• Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
• Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy…
• Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
• To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that…

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