Georges Bataille Quotes on Death
Georges Bataille was a French philosopher, novelist, and librarian whose work occupied a singular position at the edges of surrealism, sociology, and the history of religions. This page collects quotes attributed to Georges Bataille on the topic of death, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Georges Bataille:
“Sovereignty is the refusal to accept the limits that the fear of death would impose.”
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Attributed to Georges Bataille:
“Eroticism is the assenting to life up to the point of death.”
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“Today, I am overjoyed at being an object of horror and repugnance to the one being whom I am bound to... The blank head in which ‘I’ am has become so frightened and greedy that only my death could satisfy it.”
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“I sank into the moist body the way a well-guided plough sinks into earth. The earth beneath that body lay open like a grave; her naked cleft lay open to me like a freshly dug grave... our bodies were quivering like two rows of teeth chattering together.”
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