"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got……" — Georges Bataille
"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison."
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49 Quotes by Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to…
- A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is…
- The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
- I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
- Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
- Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a…
- Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the…
- The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly…
- Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
- Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality…
- Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
- To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God…