Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.

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

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.