An immense industrial network cannot be managed in the same way that one changes a tire... It expresses a circuit of cosmic energy on which it depends, which it cannot limit, and whose laws it cannot...
От само себе си се разбира, че развитието на еротизма с не е външно за областта на , но тъкмо християнството, противопоставяйки се на еротизма, е осъдило повечето религии. В някакъв смисъл християнск...
I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.
Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that breaks out with clenched teeth and weeps; the sinking feeling that doesn't know where it comes from or wh...
TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but to help you clarify what you yourself think...
If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
El tiempo no significa más que la huida de los objetos que parecían verdaderos.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which e...
Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commrnce from that point on.
These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I believe that the Evil—an acute form of Evil—which it expresses, has a...
Observing her, I saw that she was made up, that she was in an evening gown, that mourning indecently emphasized her beauty.
La poesía, en un primer impulso, destruye los objetos que aprehende, los restituye, mediante esa destrucción, a la inasible fluidez de la existencia del poeta, y a ese precio espera encontrar la ident...
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?
If I did not love deathmy sufferingmy desire for youwould kill me your absenceyour distressmake me nauseousit's time for me to love deathit's time to bite its hands
I entered into this darkness where, ever since, I plunge deeper every hour and lose myself a little more.
Assim, a via de criação de um elemento soberano (ou sagrado) — de um personagem institucional ou de uma vítima oferecida à consumação — é uma negação de um desses interditos cuja observação geral faz...
…I felt as if I were living only in order to be more aware that I was dead.
Je saisis en sombrant que la seule verité de l’homme, enfin entrevue, est d’être une supplication sans réponse.