Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

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.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

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.