Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

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

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

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

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.