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

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

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Slavery
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. – Euripedes

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Happiness

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

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Happiness

One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. – Gustave Flaubert

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Happiness

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. – Ingrid Bergman

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Happiness

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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. – Henry David Thoreau

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Body

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Money

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. – Potter Stewart

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Medical

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Self