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

#And Love #Want
“A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Kissing #Cannibalism
“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Stronger #Rebellion
“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

#Mind #Ease #Lasts
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Believe #Literature #Faces
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Needs #Passionate
“We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Two #World #Facts
“It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Police #Revolutionary #Disgusting
“Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Animal #Men #Desire
“Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Death
“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

#Love #Taken #Reality
“Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Love #Possibility
“Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Happiness #Poison #Fruit
“Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Sacrifice #Sacred
“Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Self #Names #Upset
“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

#Secret #Facts #Elude
“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

#Mind #Trying #Firsts
“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

#Moving #Essence #Light
“In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Harmony #Annihilation
“Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).”
-- Georges Bataille

#Love Is #Sick #Nervous
“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

#Real #Giving #Doe
“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

#Pain #Mean #Evil
“The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Emotional #Giving #Elements
“The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Circumstances
“Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Mistake #Giving #Feelings
“The preceding criticism ... justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Laughter #Sacrifice #Dancing
“Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Giving Up #Addiction #Ends
“Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Giving #World #Able
“An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Rejection #Facts #Intention
“If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.”
-- Georges Bataille

#Giving Up #Perfect #Viewpoints

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