Georges Bataille

“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor resignation, but in a desperate hedonism, a reckless refusal to give up the world.”

“Laughter is a leap from the possible to the impossible.”

“The sacred is that which is withdrawn from the world of use.”

“Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.”

“A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.”

“Transgression does not deny the taboo but transcends and completes it.”

“The animal is in the world like water in water.”

“The sovereign being is the one who is, as it were, dissolved in the moment.”

“The ultimate meaning of religious eroticism is the fusion of the subject with the object.”

“The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The only difference is that the saint knows how to use his anguish, and the neurotic is used by it.”

“The essence of morality is a questioning about morality.”

“The power of life is in the eruption of the impossible.”

“Communication requires loyalty, it is based on the sacredness of the given word.”