Georges Bataille Quotes

Be free, and live life fully.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

I like to control my own personal life.

I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

For me, the times in my life when I've been single have been more formative and crucial than I could have imagined. I can cope, function and be happy on my own. I'm highly capable. That doesn't mean I don't like being with a partner, or that I don't feel more rounded when I'm with someone. But the times on my own have been so good.

Education liberates a woman.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.