Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges BatailleSanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
Georges BatailleThe truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.
Georges Bataille