Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.