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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. Georges Bataille Sex 167
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. Georges Bataille Contradiction 142
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. Georges Bataille Sacrifice 136
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. Georges Bataille Morals 105
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing. Georges Bataille Judging 89
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. Georges Bataille Passion 74
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. Georges Bataille Slavery 69
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 Knowledge 69
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. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. Georges Bataille Crime 63
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion. Georges Bataille Rebellion 52
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. Georges Bataille God 47
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. Georges Bataille Mental 47
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. Georges Bataille Dream 46
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille Happy 39
Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader. Georges Bataille Writers 39
The fact is that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate. Georges Bataille Philosophical 31
Sovereignty loyalty and solitude. Georges Bataille Loyalty 24

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