The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Betrayal is beautiful.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.