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

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

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.

Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.