Georges Bataille Quotes
What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?
The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.
The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.
Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.
An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.
Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.
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.
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.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.
Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commence from that point on.
Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.