Quote by Georges Bataille
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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Mental Illness
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. – Georges Bataille

Category:
Slavery
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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

Category:
Duality
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Category:
Happiness

Although the skills arent hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. – Mario Batali

Category:
Happiness

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress. – Lillie Langtry

Category:
Happiness

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. – Mary Wortley

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Happiness

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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. – Alfred Nobel

Category:
Age

when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

Category:
Creation

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

Category:
Black History

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the 60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories. – Connie Stevens

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