Quotation by Georges Bataille

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Georges Bataille (1897–1962), French novelist, critic. repr. In Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939, ed. Allan Stoekl (1985). "The Sacred Conspiracy," no. 1, Acéphale (Paris, June 1, 1936).
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