Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

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Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

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

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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

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Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

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