Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. Georges Bataille
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. Georges Bataille
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille
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
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
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. Georges Bataille