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Georges Bataille Quotes: The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
         

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.


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The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.



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

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



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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.



The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.



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My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.





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