Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataillewas 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 post-structuralism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 September 1897
CountryFrance
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.
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.
Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.
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.
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.
The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
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.
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.