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

Source: The Mother, in My Mother, 1966.
-- Georges Bataille, (Sep 10 1897-1962), French librarian, essayist, moralist, poet, novelist; His essays, novels, and poetry expressed his fascination with eroticism, mysticism, and the irrational.

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