Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges BatailleWhat does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?
Georges BatailleWhen my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.
Georges Bataille