It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.
Georges BatailleThe owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.
Georges BatailleOnly literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.
Georges BatailleThe warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
Georges Bataille