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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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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. – Georges Bataille

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Crime
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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

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Sanity
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Georges Bataille
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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. – Charles Sumner

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Happiness

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. – Robert A. Heinlein

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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. – William Beveridge

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Happiness

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. – Daniel Dennett

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