Famous Georges Bataille Quotes

  • The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death. – Georges Bataille

    The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.– Georges Bataille

  • Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude. – Georges Bataille

    Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.– Georges Bataille

  • Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself. – Georges Bataille

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

  • If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring. – Georges Bataille

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