“Love expresses a need for sacrifice each unity must lose itself in some other which exceeds it. In erotic frenzy the being is led to tear itself apart and lose itself.”

— Georges Bataille

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939

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French intellectual and literary figure 1897–1962

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