Quotes About Georges Bataille

I equate love (bodies touching indecently) to the limitlessness of being – to nausea, to the sun, and to death.

the lugubrious grandeur that characterizes the places where blood flows

Sentences will be confined to museums if the emptiness of writing persists," predicted Georges Bataille.

It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.