• Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

  Georges Bataille
  French writer and critic 1897-1962
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. certainty
2. profaning

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. by : Georges Bataille

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