Bataille, Georges

"Eroticism is assenting to life even in death."

"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a problem for you."

"God is unconscious."

"We are dying, all of us, and nothing will save us."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."

"To be is to have a taste for being, a taste that only the expenditure without return of existence can satisfy."

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

"What makes art interesting is that it can never be reduced to a single meaning."

"Laughter is the alternative to despair."

"The sacred is precisely the limit at which reason breaks down."

"Man is the animal condemned to think."

"Time is the moving image of eternity."

"Freedom is the absence of masters."

"We are bound to the world by our needs."

"The human spirit is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."

"Poetry is the voice of the irrational."

"To communicate is to engage in a ceremony that changes you."

"The limit of rationality is where reason begins."

"We live to die; we die to live again."

"Beauty exists in the unexpected."

"Lust is the most human of all desires."

"The summit of experience is the acceptance of death."

"Knowledge is the wound that separates us from innocence."

"War is a form of excess, a release of accumulated tensions."

"The individual is a prisoner of their own consciousness."

"Morality is what binds us; immorality is what frees us."

"A transgression is defined by the taboo it breaks."

"The future is a void, and we are condemned to fill it with meaning."

"To love is to lose control."