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

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.

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.

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

Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.

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.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.