Quote by Georges Bataille
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion,

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. – Georges Bataille

Other quotes by Georges Bataille

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

Category:
Mental Illness
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. – Georges Bataille

Category:
Slavery
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to ones rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. – Georges Bataille

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Dreams
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Passion
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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still. – George Chapman

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Passion

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. – Benjamin Franklin

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Passion

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. – Jean de la Fontaine

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Passion

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. – John Lancaster Spalding

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Never give advice unless asked. – Proverb

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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. – H.L. Mencken

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Marriage

Feelings pass like clouds but love endures like the sky. – Peter Roberts (Omnipresent Love, @evolvewithlove)

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Love