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


Georges Bataille

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GEORGES SIMENON Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, wi...
GEORGES RODENBACH He mostly preached in the evening, when the college
church was already shrouded in shadow. And...
GEORGES RODENBACH Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refus...
GEORGES BIZET Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved the...
GEORGES CUVIER Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
GEORGES ROUAULT Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
GEORGES CARPENTIER sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
GEORGES DUHAMEL Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible...
GEORGES PEREC A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one ''loses',' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
GEORGES BERNANOS It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around...
GEORGES SIMENON It was a rough one.
SEAN GEORGES Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. L...
GEORGES PEREC I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go ar...
GEORGES BENJAMIN This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to nam...
GEORGES PEREC Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl...
GEORGES PEREC Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be...
GEORGES PEREC Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ...
GEORGES PEREC Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU