I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.