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

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

Georges Bataille
Giving, Church, Satisfaction
Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”

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.

Georges Bataille
Real, Giving, Doe
Georges Bataille (1989). “Theory of religion”, Zone Books (NY)

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Georges Bataille
Dream, Knowing, Giving
Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.24, U of Minnesota Press

Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.

Georges Bataille
Giving, World, Able
"On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. 30, 1945.

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Georges Bataille
Emotional, Giving, Elements

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

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Georges Bataille
Blood, Giving, Battle

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