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Quotes from Bataille's work :

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Yes, it is about personal pain and reclaiming dark and ugly parts of himself, but it's also how these parts represent a revolution, his way of revolution. The parallels between Bataille's work and his message are plenty. He knows his eroticism is a source of horror and discomfort to others and maybe to himself, but that's why it's so pleasurable to dive into it. It's the way to shatter the norms of the outside world, but also his inner world.

Eroticism is his look into the dark, into the abyss in a way that permits the reflection of everything underneath the surface and helps bring back to the surface the consciousness of what can usually stay subconscious.