Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. – Georges Bataille
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
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else — an animals incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. – Georges Bataille
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to ones rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. – Georges Bataille