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Bataille QUOTES

  • We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die

  • “Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”

  • I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction

  • The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.



  • Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

  • The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

  • Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary

  • It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.



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