I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
Georges BatailleTag: truth contradiction
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.
Georges BatailleBeauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.
Georges BatailleTag: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard
Los hombres se desconocen el el bien y se aman en el mal. El bien es la hipocresia. El mal es el amor. La inocencia es el amor del pecado.
Georges BatailleThe need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
Georges BatailleWe did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
Georges BatailleBut a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.
Georges BatailleThe sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.
Georges BatailleAbove all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of strength; such an expenditure, whether in nature or in man, represents the strongest possible threat. The feelings of admiration and of ecstasy induced by them thus mean that we are concerned to admire them from afar. The sun corresponds to that prudent concern. It is all radiance gigantic loss of heat and light, flame, explosion; but remote from men, who can enjoy in safety and quiet the fruits of this cataclysm. To earth belongs the solidity which sustains houses of stone and the steps of men (at least on its surface, for buried within the depths of the earth is the incandescence of lava).
Georges BatailleTag: power distance stability permanence
In what will survive me
I am in harmony
with my annihilation.
Tag: inspirational
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