Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

- Georges Bataille

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

- Georges Bataille

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

- Georges Bataille

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

- Georges Bataille

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

- Georges Bataille

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always t…

- Georges Bataille

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

- Georges Bataille

A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

- Georges Bataille

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

- Georges Bataille