It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

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

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.