We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

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.

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

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.