Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
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Sanity 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.
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