This truth—about sensibility, about sex, about individual personality, about despair, about limits—can be shared when it projects itself into art.

Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye [Amazon, Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Bataille The Story of the Eye truth sensibility sex individual personality despair limits shared projects itself art

Consider also:

  1. Omnium Gatherum: 27jul2022
  2. “Let the drink sit in your fridge for at least half an hour so the flavors can come to terms with what just happened to them.”
  3. “If only to keep the supply of food and books flowing in, I would have to fake some sort of participation in a human environment that had never really made much sense.”
  4. “My dearest, I will now explain the only safe and true formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the World, the most secret among all secrets. Let it be secret to him who would attain. Let it cover any period of time, depending on his conception. There is no qualification, nor ritual or ceremony. His very existence symbolising all that is necessary to perfection. Most emphatically, there is no need of repetition or feeble imitation. You are alive!”
  5. “she had spent a few minutes performing her standard thinking-and-calming ritual: eating toast. And yet, not merely eating toast; eating toast as a meditative practice.”