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“If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.”

Georges Bataille

Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxx

“I cannot exist entirely except when somehow I go beyond the stage of action. Otherwise I’m a soldier, a professional, a man of learning, not a “total human being.” The fragmentary state of humanity is basically the same as the choice of an object. When you limit your desires to possessing political power, for instance, you act and know what you have to do. … You insert your existence advantageously into time. Each of your moments becomes useful. With each moment, the possibility is given you to advance to some chosen goal, and your time becomes a march toward that goal—what’s normally called living. … Every action makes you a fragmentary existence. I hold on to my nature as an entirety only by refusing to act—or at least by denying the superiority of time, which is reserved for action.”

Georges Bataille

Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxvii

“It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.”

Georges Bataille

Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxvii

“There is no communication more profound,” he claims. “[T]wo beings are lost in a convulsion that binds them together. But they only communicate when losing a part of themselves. Communication ties them together with wounds, where their unity and integrity dissipate in fever.”

Georges Bataille

Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939, p. 250

“I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.”

Georges Bataille

Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. 12

“[Nietzsche’s doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don’t forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that “each moment of life ought to be motivated.””

Georges Bataille

Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.
Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxxiii

“In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn’t develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that kind are tainted with ponderousness. Nietzsche wrote “with his blood,” and criticizing, or, better, experiencing him means pouring out one’s lifeblood. … It was only with my life that I wrote the Nietzsche book that I had planned.”

Georges Bataille

Source: On Nietzsche (1945), pp. xxiv-xxv

“Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others’ ends.”

Georges Bataille

Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxxiv, note