I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction  

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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”—Georges Bataille

See Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille (1984) by Paul Buck (Author), Jeff Nuttall (Illustrator):

"( I believe that truth has only one face : that of a violent contradiction . Truth has nothing in common with ALLEGORICAL figures, with figures of NAKED WOMEN : but that foot of a man who was living a few minutes before had the"

"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. Truth has nothing in common with ALLEGORICAL figures, with figures of NAKED WOMEN: but that foot of a man who was living a few minutes before had the violence - the negative violence - of truth. In other words, truth is not death: in a world where life disappeared, truth would he, in effect, that "unimportance" which suggests a possibility, but which, by the same token, withdraws it. And without doubt, through the immensity, an indefmite, eternal possibility subsists, but since in me (in the one who '\\ntes), that foot announces the terrifying disappearance of what is", 1 wiJl henceforth no longer see what is" except in the transparency of the foot which, more than a piercing cry, announces annihilation. (Buck, 2000, pp. 26-27)

French:

[La vérité je crois n'a qu'un visage : celui d'un démenti violent. La vérité n'a rien de commun avec des figures alégoriques, avec des figures de femmes nues : mais ce pied d'un homme qui vivait tout-à-l'heure avait, lui, la violence - la violence négative - de la vérité. Autrement dit, la vérité n'est pas la mort : dans un monde où la vie disp araîtrait, la vérité serait, en effet, ce « n'importe quoi ), qui suggère une possibilité, mais qui, du même fait, la retire. Et sans doute, à travers l'immensité, une possibilité éternelle, indéfinie, subsiste, mais puisqu'en moi (en celui qui écrit), ce pied annonce la disparition terrifiante de « ce qui est ), désormais je ne verrai plus < ce qui est ) que dans la transparence du pied qui, mieux qu'un cri, en annonce l'anéantissement].