"Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry."

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Source : Georges Bataille (1989). “The Tears of Eros”, p.177, City Lights Books

Georges Bataille

“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.”
“Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.”
“Life is the longest death in California,”
“I was raised in Catholic school where we were given a lot of heavy literature and a dense, weighty lyric wasn't strange to me. I didn't need everything to be light and simple for me to see the beauty in it.”
“If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.”

Source : Andrew Klavan (2012). “The Homelanders”, p.699, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything”
“I'm not trying to run away from my fans at all. I want them to grow with me.”
“You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.”

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