Quotes About Bataille

I told him the details of my sex life with Bataille most likely to arouse the desires dormant in him that I desired. Soon he began questioning me about the acts he found most disgusting and so most wanted to commit.

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

being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible for language to reach (this is also due to the impossibility of experiencing of re-experiencing anything through language), Bataille still expresses it in words. (Mishima on Bataille)

the lugubrious grandeur that characterizes the places where blood flows

Elle plane à présent sur tous les champs de bataille, la Marseillaise, la Niké, la déesse ailée de la Victoire, entraînant d'innombrables vies humaines vers une mort enthousiaste.

Nietzsche wanted to explode the framework of Occidental rationalism within which the competitors of Left and Right Hegelianism still moved. His antihumanism, continued by Heidegger and Bataille in two variations, is the real challenge for the discourse of modernity.

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.