Quotes from bataille georges ii

Love expresses a need for sacrifice each unity must lose itself in some other which exceeds it. In erotic frenzy the being is led to tear itself apart and lose itself.... Two beings are lost in a convulsion that binds them together. But they only communicate when losing a part of themselves. Communication ties them together with wounds, where their unity and integrity dissipate in fever.

And if the origin of things is not like the ground of the planet that seems to be the base, but like the circular movement that the planet describes around a mobile center, then a car, a clock, or a sewing machine could equally be accepted as the generative principle.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance. Only in empty longing, only in an unlucky desire to be consumed simply be the desire to burn with desire, is entirety wholly what it is.

Moral ends ... are distinct from any excesses they occasion. States of glory and moments of sacredness surpass results intentionally sought.

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

An abandoned shoe, a rotten tooth, a snub nose, the cook spitting in the soup of his masters are to love what a battle flag is to nationality.

Sentences will be consigned to museums if the emptiness in writing persists.

The human foot is commonly subjected to grotesque tortures that deform it and make it rickety. In an imbecilic way it is doomed to corns, calluses, and bunions.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

Every action makes you a fragmentary existence. I hold on to my nature as an entirety only by refusing to act--or at least by denying the superiority of time, which is reserved for action.