"what is sobriety if not the fear of everything that is not lasting, at least of that which seems as if it will not last."
- bataille, the tears of eros
"obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognised and stable individuality. "
- bataille, erotism
"my life only has a meaning insofar as I lack one: oh, but let me be mad! make something of all this he who is able to, understand it he who is dying, and there the living self is, knowing not why, its teeth chattering in the lashing wind: the immensity, the night engulfs it and, all on purpose, that living self is there just in order … ‘not to know’. "
- bataille, madame edwarda
"everything is dead while it lives. "
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