Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Quote by Georges Bataille

(Story of the Eye) (under pseudonym of Lord Auch)
L'Anus solaire 1931. Trans. 1851) a tax collector and Antoinette-Aglaë Tournarde (b.

Eroticism sovereignty and transgression are at the core of his writings.