Quotes by George Bataille

The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these...

#Death

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

#Truth

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

#Crime

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession,...

#Intelligence

In essence, the domain of eroticism is the domain of violence, of violation.

#Violence