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Georges Bataille Quotes about Literature

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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille
Believe, Literature, Faces
Georges Bataille (1984). “Violent silence: celebrating Georges Bataille”

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

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

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

Georges Bataille
Childhood, Literature, Rediscovery

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Georges Bataille
God, Animal, Literature
Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

Georges Bataille
Order, Law, Literature

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