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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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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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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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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Happiness

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

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Happiness

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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Happiness

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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All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here. – A.R. Rahman

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I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study. – Esperanza Spalding

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cool

I was drafted during the Korean War. – Clint Eastwood

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War

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. – Joni Mitchell

Category:
Sympathy