The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.
Georges BatailleIncredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
Georges BatailleIt seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.
Georges BatailleLife has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Georges Bataille