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.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.