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

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

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

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

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.

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.