I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

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

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

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

It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.

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.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.