My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

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.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.