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Georges Bataille

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, economics, sociology and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. His work would prove influential on subsequent schools of philosophy and social theory, including poststructuralism.

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You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

Desire, Knows, Perhaps, Pulp, Reduces

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

Cruel, Suffering, Talkative

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.

Giving, World, Able, Inasmuch, Humanness, Having

I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.

Ecstasy, Intolerable, Remain, Way

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Necessary, Nothing, Rebellion, Stronger

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

Addiction, Ends, Giving, Giving Up

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.

Convulsion, Humanity, Painful, Realizing, Relate, Want

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

Church, Giving, Satisfaction, True

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Crush, Men, Being Free, Condition, Burdened

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

Authority, Contest, Difficulty, Done, Names

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

Assenting, Death, May, Point, Said

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.

Agitation, Determines, Human, Needs, Police, Revolutionary

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.

Alone, Elude Us, Fact, Scary, Secret, Terrifying

Philosophy. . . finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

Clean, God, Heirs, Longer, Missing, Philosophy

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.

Base, Moments, Think, Thinking, Way, Wherein

It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. . . . The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience,. . . what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.

Differences, Laid, Philosophy, Principally, Wind

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

Together, Modesty, Contrary, Defy

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.

Dream, Giving, Knowing, Like, Rage, Wander

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.

Create, Independently, Law, Literature, Order

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

Incredible, Love Is, Nervous, Sick, State, Words

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