Quotes by : Georges Bataille

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of....

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

These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either....

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

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

TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought....

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

To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness.....

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,....