Bataille, Georges

"To be human is to hunger beyond satisfaction."

"The moment we name something, we destroy it."

"We are all priests of our own dissolution."

"Beauty emerges from the breakdown of order."

"The intellectual pursues what cannot be possessed."

"We are most alive at the edge of collapse."

"The sacred is what remains untranslatable."

"Meaning multiplies when we stop seeking it."

"The world resists our will to understand it."

"We live in the ruins of ourselves."

"The erotic imagination is civilization's highest achievement."

"Constraint breeds the most authentic expression."

"We are strangers to ourselves."

"The moment is all we ever truly possess."

"To love is to accept the other's fundamental otherness."

"The unconscious speaks through excess."