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Famous Georges Bataille Quotes
“An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.”
“If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.”
“Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.”
“The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.”
“The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.”
“The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.”
“Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.”
“The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.”
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
“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.”
“The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.”
“You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.”