By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

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

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.