Quotes by : Georges Bataille

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

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....

Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.

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

If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.

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....