Quotes Georges Bataille

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the...

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species...

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an anima...

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death....

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams,...

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent coh...

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility....

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, t...

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred thi...

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that o...

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and...

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushe...

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being Go...