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.

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

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 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.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.