Petal

“VII The happiness we find in becoming is possible only by annihilating the reality of “existences” and lovely appearance, and through the pessimistic destruction of illusions: so, by annihilating even the loveliest appearances, Dionysian happiness attains its height.”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“The organism is a diversion of life, whereas abstract line is life itself.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“The laughter or the tears break out in the vacuum of thought created by their object in the mind. But these moments, like the deeply
rhythmed movements of poetry, of music, of love, of dance, have the power - to capture - and endlessly recapture the moment that
counts, the moment of rupture, of fissure. As if we were trying to arrest the moment and freeze it in the constantly renewed gasps
of our laughter or our sobs. The miraculous moment when anticipation dissolves into NOTHING, detaching us from the ground on
which we were groveling, in the concatenation of useful activity”
― Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty

“The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, our perceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday the body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.”
― Alice Miller