The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

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.

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.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.