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To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have gelded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savour the ...more
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Georges Bataille
“A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.”
Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille
“It has always been possible to say "The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling."
Georges Bataille

Bret Easton Ellis
“The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.”
Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

Georges Bataille
“That discourse one might call the poetry of transgression is also knowledge. He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don’t know.”
Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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