Inspirational Quotes by Georges Bataille — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE...”

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

“The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.”

“If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.”

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

“They can very well try to find each other; they will never find anything but parodic images, and they will fall asleep as empty as mirrors.”