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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to beco

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

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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

Category:
Mental Illness
Author
Georges Bataille
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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys ones equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. – Georges Bataille

Category:
Sanity
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Georges Bataille
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I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. – Diego Val

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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

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