Quotes by Bataille, Georges

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the sain >>

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys >>

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but >>

Quotations about Crime and Criminals

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality i >>

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. >>

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he' >>

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.

Bataille, Georges