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

The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.

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

I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.