The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror
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.
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.