The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
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 cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
We did not lack modestyโon the contraryโbut something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.