"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison."

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Source : Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

Georges Bataille

#Happiness Quotes #Poison Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.”
“There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.”
“If the disciples needed to be so endued and to preach the gospel with the Holy Spirit and with the manifestation of the Almighty, are we better than them able to carry on God's work without the empowerment they had?”
“Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.”
“To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.”
“My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It was a sh*t sandwich.”
“Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is heâ€™s called the Stig.”

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