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

  Georges Bataille
  French writer and critic 1897-1962
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. delightful
2. happiness
3. tainted
4. poison

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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. by : Georges Bataille

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