"Violence strangely overwhelmes us in both cases, given that what happens is foreing to the established order, which opposes such violence. There's indecency in death, different, with no doubt, of what sex activity has of incongruous. Death is associated to tears, the same way sexual desire is associated to laughter; but laughter is not, in the messure it appears to be, the opposite to tears, both the laughter target as the tears' are always related to a kind of violence that interrupts the regular course, the average course of things. Obviuosly the sex whirlwind doesn't make us cry, but always disturb us, in somecases even upset us and, one of both, either make us laugh or embraces us in the violence of hugh...IT IS BECAUSE WE'RE HUMANS AND WE LIVE IN THE DEATH'S GRIM PERSPECTIVE THAT WE KNOW EXASPERATED VIOLENCE, the exasperated violence of erotism.
Taken from "The Tears of Eros"
By Georges Bataille.
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