The big toe is the most human part of the human body, in the sense that no other element of this body is as differentiated from the corresponding ele… - Georges Bataille

There is no communication more profound,” he claims. “[T]wo beings are lost in a convulsion that binds them together. But they only communicate when losing a part of themselves. Communication ties them together with wounds, where their unity and integrity dissipate in fever.

To choose evil is to choose freedom—“freedom, emancipation from all restraint.”

Against this rising tide of murder, far more incisive than life (because blood is more resplendent in death than in life), it will be impossible to set anything but trivialities – the comic entreaties of old ladies.