Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

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

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.