What did Georges Bataille mean by: Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death Georges Bataille Copy
I don’t want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Acceptance, Love, Vulnerability, 0 Georges Bataille
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Emancipation, Freedom, Restraint, 0 Georges Bataille
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Elusiveness, Time, Uncertainty, 0 Georges Bataille
Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others’ ends. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Independence, Individuality, Self-fulfillment, 0 Georges Bataille
The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Paradox, Perception, Truth, 0 Georges Bataille
Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Desire, Existence, Longing, 0 Georges Bataille
The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Respect, Sacred, Violation, 0 Georges Bataille
In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Annihilation, Harmony, Survival, 0 Georges Bataille
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
