Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

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.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.