Author: Georges Bataille

Cites

• William Blake (1)
  • IN: L'abbe C (1950) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Then my pen I dishonour, my pictures despise, My person degrade and my temper chastise; And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; And my talents I bury, and dead is my Fame.
    FROM: Poems from Letters [To Thomas Butts]: O! why was I born with a different face?, (1803), Poem, UK

Cited by

• Peter Straub (1)
  • IN: The Throat (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A being can only be touched where it yields. For a woman, this is under her dress; and for a god it's on the throat of the animal being sacrificed.
    FROM: Guilty, (1944), Book, France
• Bill Pronzini (1)
  • IN: The Hidden (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
    FROM: The Trial of Gilles de Rais, (1959), Book, France
• Eduardo Lalo (1)
  • IN: Simone (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...il n'est pas de désir plus grand que celui du blessé pour une autre blessure. (No greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.)
    FROM: Le Coupable, (1944), Book, France
• Mandy Keifetz (1)
  • IN: Flea Circus (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Humanity is faced with a double perspective: in one direction, violent pressure, horror and death -- precisely the perspective of poetry -- and in the oppposite direction, that of science or the real world of utility. Only the useful, the real, have a serious character. We are never within our rights in preferring seduction. Truth has rights over us. Indeed, it has every right. And yet we can, and indeed we must, respond to something which, not being God, is stronger than every right, that impossible to which we accede only by forgetting the truth of all these rights, only by accepting disappearance.
    FROM: Preface to "The Impossible", (1947), Book, France
• Hilda Hilst (1)
  • IN: With My Dog-Eyes (1986) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: [...] je saisis en sombrant que la seule verité de Phomme, enfin entrevue, est d'être une supplication sans réponse. I grasp while sinking that the sole truth of man, glimpsed at last, is to be a supplication without response.
    FROM: Œuvres complètes Vol. 11, (1949), Book, France
• Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel (1)
  • IN: Murder in the Central Committee (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But death suddenly shows that the real society is lying.
    FROM: The Theory of Religion, (1973), Book, France