“The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I can look or pass. I rediscover indifference (allowing her to leave me) when I fall asleep, through an inability to love what happens. It is impossible for her to know whom she will discover when I hold her, because she obstinately attains a complete forgetting.”
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French author and philosopher, born on September 10, 1897, and died on July 9, 1962. Bataille is known for his unique literary style and philosophical thinking, with works spanning various forms including novels, essays, and critiques. more
“Bad dreams do not hurt. An absence of it does.”
“No, pussy!’ said I, ‘if you have any conscience you ought not to expect that!”
“Life's a scab, and it's our nature to pick at it until it bleeds.”
“Tell him, Cecily had advised, we never stopped praying for impossible things.”
“Just before I fell asleep, I had a moment of panic ...”
“Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”