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If I want to realize totality...

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

But a sort of rupture-in angu...

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 an elusive beyond.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

To others, the universe seems...

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 of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

Entirety exists within me as ...

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

Sanity is the lot of those wh...

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

How cruel my suffering is,—no...

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

A man who finds himself among...

A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

[F]or academic men to be happ...

[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

I don't want your love unless...

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

It is clear that the world is...

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

Not every woman is a prostitu...

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

I think that knowledge enslav...

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 each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

Pleasure only starts once the...

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

I enjoyed the innocence of un...

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

The owl flies, in the moonlig...

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

The power of death signifies ...

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 consumption until the moment it gives out.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

Incredible nervous state, tre...

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

Eroticism is the approval of ...

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

When my face is flushed with ...

When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

Each of us is incomplete comp...

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 complete only to be imaginary.

Georges Bataille 105 quotes

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