“What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy?”
Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance?
IX: "Le Mauvais Vitrier" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_IX._Le_Mauvais_Vitrier
Le Spleen de Paris (1862)
IX: "Le Mauvais Vitrier" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_IX._Le_Mauvais_Vitrier
(fr) Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance?
Le spleen de Paris (1862)
Variant: What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy?
Source: Paris Spleen
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.”
Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
“I dream of the damnation I have so amply earned, stolen from me by the indolence of God.”
Source: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 4: "Easter", p. 56
No. 76, preached to the Earl of Carlisle, c. autumn 1622
LXXX Sermons (1640)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001) p. 193.
Quoted from [Martha Bush Ashton, Martha Bush Ashton-Sikora, Bruce Christie, Yakṣagāna, a Dance Drama of India, 23, http://books.google.com/books?id=ug3DNI-1xwUC&pg=PA23, 1977, Abhinav Publications, 23–].
