Georges Bataille Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Georges Bataille

  Believe, Literature, Faces

  Georges Bataille (1984). “Violent silence: celebrating Georges Bataille”

• Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

  Georges Bataille

  Elude Us, Scary, Secret

  Georges Bataille (1991). “The Trial of Gilles de Rais”, Amok Books

• The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

  Georges Bataille

  Moving, Light, Essence

  "The Dualist Materialism of Georges Bataille". Paper by Denis Hollier. Yale French Studies No. 78 ("On Bataille"), pp. 124-139, www.jstor.org. September 26, 1990.

• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

  Georges Bataille

  Happiness, Poison, Literature

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

• Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

  Georges Bataille

  God, Animal, Literature

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”

• Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

  Georges Bataille

  Dream, Knowing, Giving

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.24, U of Minnesota Press

• Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

  Georges Bataille

  Order, Law, Literature

• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

  Georges Bataille

  Crush, Men, Being Free

• Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

  Georges Bataille

  Childhood, Literature, Rediscovery

• Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

  Georges Bataille

  Communication, Desire, Tasks

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