Georges Bataille Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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

  Sex, Animal, Men

  Georges Bataille (1977). “Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo”, Arno Press

• You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

  Georges Bataille

  Desire, Pulp, Knows

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

• Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

  Georges Bataille

  Desire, Longing, Empty

  "On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. 27, 1945.

• Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.

  Georges Bataille

  Mistake, Giving, Feelings

• Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

  Georges Bataille

  Communication, Desire, Tasks

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