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Us Quotes by Georges Bataille
- Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden.…
- 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…
- We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
- But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with…
- Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
- Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
- 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…
- You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.
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