It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, … - Georges Bataille

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There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas.

Georges Bataille

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

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Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

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I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

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A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

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I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

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The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

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I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pain of others by recalling my own sufferings.

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I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.

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Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

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