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.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

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