“Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.”
Georges Bataille
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“The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.”
Georges Bataille
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“At man’s core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear … when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.”
Georges Bataille
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“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.”
Georges Bataille
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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
Georges Bataille
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“Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.”
Georges Bataille
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“Naturally, love’s the most distant possibility.”
Georges Bataille
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“Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.”
Georges Bataille
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