"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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Source : Georges Bataille (1977). “Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo”, Arno Press

Georges Bataille

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“I love weekends. Just like everyone else, I get to rest on weekends and go out with friends. I hate Mondays.”
“To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.”
“I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.”
“The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.”
“They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.”
“The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself.”

Source : Isaac Ambrose (1769). “War with Devils: Ministration Of, and Communion with Angels”, p.65
“At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.”

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