Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid.

What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.