Bataille, Georges

"I exist through the excessiveness of my desires."

"Beauty resides in the moment of excessive intensity."

"Knowledge without transgression is sterile."

"The intellectual is someone who has given up on living."

"Time is the substance we waste most carelessly."

"The inner experience cannot be communicated; it can only be lived."

"Sovereignty is the freedom to exceed all limits."

"We are condemned to meaning-making."

"The city is a place of lost identities."

"To be alive is to constantly exceed ourselves."

"The sacred cannot be approached rationally."

"Energy without expression becomes poison."

"The profane is what breaks the sacred order."

"I refuse to be imprisoned by single meanings."

"Desire is the engine of all consciousness."

"The impossible is what calls to us most strongly."

"We live between ecstasy and agony."

"Truth is the privilege of the few."

"Lust is the closest we get to authenticity."

"The soul is what remains when logic fails."

"Convention is the enemy of experience."

"Inner experience demands everything."

"The world resists our attempts to comprehend it."

"Being is defined by what exceeds it."

"Excess is the only form of truth I recognize."

"The human is what continually transcends itself."

"We are bound by ties we do not understand."

"The moment of pure expenditure is divine."

"Limits are what give meaning to transgression."

"The greatest thoughts come in solitude."