Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

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

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.