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Georges Bataille
“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 savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on condition that they be insipid.
But as of then, no doubt existed for me: I did not care for what is known as "pleasures of the flesh" because they really are insipid; I cared only for what is classified as "dirty." On the other hand, I was not even satisfied with the usual debauchery, because the only thing it dirties is debauchery itself, while, in some way or other, anything sublime and perfectly pure is left intact by it. My kind of debauchery soils not only my body and my thoughts, but also anything I may conceive in its course, that is to say, the vast starry universe, which merely serves as a backdrop.”
Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

Charles Bukowski
“Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave.”
Charles Bukowski, Post Office

Jonathan Franzen
“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Patti Smith
“Anxious for some permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is.”
Patti Smith, M Train: A Memoir

Henry Miller
“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. What stays him, usually, is the fear of the sacrifices involved. (Even to relinquish his chains seems like a sacrifice.) yet everyone knows that nothing is accomplished without sacrifice.”
Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

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