Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

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

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.