"On the most fundamental level there are transitions from continuous to discontinuous or from discontinuous to continuous. We are discontinuous beings, individuals who perish in isolation in the midst of an incomprehensible adventure, but we yearn for our lost continuity." —Erotism: death and sensuality, Georges Bataille
「生命中最根本的變化是從連貫到不連貫或者是從不連貫到連貫的過程。我們都是不連貫的生命、在無法理解的人生歷險中孤獨死亡的個體,但我們懷戀失去的連貫。」-《情色論》, 巴塔耶