“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.”
Source: My mother
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Famous Georges Bataille Quotes
Source: My mother
“Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.”
Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939
Source: Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo
Source: The Trial of Gilles de Rais
“Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.”
Source: Guilty
Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939
“Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.”
Source: Erotism
Source: Guilty
Source: My mother
Source: L'abbé C: A Novel
Source: Erotism
“My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.”
Source: Guilty
“How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!”
“To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.”
“Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.”
Source: The Tears of Eros
“I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.”
Source: Inner Experience
“Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death”
Source: Erotism