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. Georges Bataille More Quotes by Georges Bataille More Quotes From Georges Bataille Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself. Georges Bataille animal men sex I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it. Georges Bataille and-love knows want A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Georges Bataille cannibalism kissing Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry. Georges Bataille The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth. Georges Bataille destroyed passionate needs I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair? Georges Bataille innocence blame despair The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose. Georges Bataille awakening mind night To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. Georges Bataille emancipation restraint evil Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude. Georges Bataille apotheosis feminine attitude A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms. Georges Bataille girl knowing men 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. Georges Bataille sky trying kids Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror Georges Bataille extremes horror boundaries 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. Georges Bataille parody form world Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion. Georges Bataille rebellion stronger The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space. Georges Bataille tigers space My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction. Georges Bataille church satisfaction giving We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die. Georges Bataille two facts world You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp. Georges Bataille pulp knows desire At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better. Georges Bataille god men order Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick). Georges Bataille nervous sick love-is
