Quotes by : Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted....

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence....

The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely....

Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that breaks....

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's....

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is....

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect,....

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to....