

“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.”
― Story of the Eye
― Story of the Eye

“Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.”
― The Bataille Reader
― The Bataille Reader

“That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words…and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the exhausting immensity of their “possibles”, in short their treachery, have something of quicksand about them.”
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“I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?”
― My Mother / Madame Edwarda / The Dead Man
― My Mother / Madame Edwarda / The Dead Man
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