Quotes by : Georges Bataille

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

Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual....

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....

I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation....

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

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

I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist,....