A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.
Georges BatailleThe truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.
Georges BataillePleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges BatailleIt is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
Georges Bataille