Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges BatailleNot every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.
Georges BatailleBy the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.
Georges BatailleIt is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
Georges Bataille