I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. Georges Bataille More Quotes by Georges Bataille More Quotes From Georges Bataille 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 god mean By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention. Georges Bataille always-trying attention men The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. Georges Bataille being-free crush men The circumstances of my life are paralyzing. Georges Bataille circumstances Eroticism is the approval of life unto death. Georges Bataille approval The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. Georges Bataille truth-is perception usual 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. Georges Bataille realizing humanity want It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror. Georges Bataille eye animal men The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. Georges Bataille battle giving blood Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille poison literature happiness If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me. Georges Bataille viewpoints giving-up perfect Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. Georges Bataille death Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us. Georges Bataille elude-us elude order 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 sacrifice laughter dancing Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude. Georges Bataille sovereignty loyalty solitude 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 upset self names Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood. Georges Bataille rediscovery childhood literature 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. Georges Bataille differences wind philosophy 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 feelings giving [Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends. Georges Bataille doctrine return mean
