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.
A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.
Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.
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.
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.
The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
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.