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

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

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

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death