The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
Georges BatailleWe did not lack modestyโon the contraryโbut something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
Georges BatailleThe power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
Georges Bataille[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.
Georges Bataille