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Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire. - Georges Bataille
" "Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire.
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About Georges Bataille
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French writer. His multifaceted work is linked to the domains of literature, anthropology, philosophy, economy, sociology and history of art. Eroticism and transgression are at the core of his writings.
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Pierre Angélique
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George Bataille
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Joruju Bataiyu
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G. Bataiyu
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Lord Auch
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Pierre Angelique
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Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille
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Extreme states of being, whether individual or collective, were once purposefully motivated. Some of those purposes no longer have meaning (expiation, salvation). The well-being of communities is no longer sought through means of doubtful effectiveness, but directly, through action. Under these conditions, extreme states of being fell into the domain of the arts, and not without a certain disadvantage. Literature (fiction) took the place of what had formerly been the spiritual life; poetry (the disorder of words) that of real states of trance. Art constituted a small free domain, outside action: to gain freedom it had to renounce the real world. This is a heavy price to pay, and most writers dream of recovering a lost reality. They must then pay in another sense, by renouncing freedom.
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