Georges Bataille Quotes on Life
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 life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Georges Bataille:
“Eroticism is the assenting to life up to the point of death.”
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“All that I had loved during my life rose up like a graveyard of white tombs, in a lunar, spectral light. Fundamentally, this graveyard was a brothel. The funereal marble was alive. In some places it had hair on it.”
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“Life is whole only when it isn’t subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.”
On Nietzsche(1945) | p. xxvii -
“The total person is first disclosed … in areas of life that are lived frivolously.”
On Nietzsche(1945) | p. xxix -
“Against this rising tide of murder, far more incisive than life (because blood is more resplendent in death than in life), it will be impossible to set anything but trivialities – the comic entreaties of old ladies.”
Blue of the Noon(1935)