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We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.
Georges Bataille -
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.
Georges Bataille
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Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.
Georges Bataille -
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
Georges Bataille -
Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
Georges Bataille -
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
Georges Bataille -
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
Georges Bataille -
Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
Georges Bataille