Encyclopaedia Acephalica Quotes

“There is, in every man, an animal...imprisoned, like a galley slave, and there is a gate, and if we open the gate, the animal will rush out, like the slave finding his way to escape.”
― Georges Bataille, Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts

“One day or another, it is true, dust, supposing it persists, will probably begin to gain the upper hand over domestics, invading the immense ruins of abandoned buildings, deserted dockyards; and, at that distant epoch, nothing will remain to ward off night-terrors, for lack of which we have become such great book-keepers...”
― Georges Bataille, Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts