Occupation: Author Birth: September 10, 1897 Death: July 9, 1962
A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forget….
Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror.
By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always t….
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form..
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint..
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison..
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth..
Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude..
A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism..
Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry..
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumpti….
The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be ….
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die..
In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation..
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence,….
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest..
The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space..
Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of thes….
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction..
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precise….
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion..