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The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

Philosophy ... finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

We did not lack modesty - on the contrary - but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

I have in my mind an obscenity so great that I could vomit the most dreadful words and it wouldn't be enough!

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.

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

In effect, vice turns common sense upside-down, and he who admits himself to be vicious abides by stigmatizing terms of horror.

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

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

the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary to no longer speak

I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

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.

A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.

The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

How cruel my suffering is, - no one is more talkative than I am!

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

It has always been possible to say "The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling."

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.

As for the sphere of thought, it is horror. Yes, it is horror itself.

If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

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

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out.
Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

What seems to be unspeakable weakness can sometimes be just distaste for the generally accepted morality.

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

Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

I began to willfully indulge in dreams that, with the help of a bottle of wine, became completely mad and were close to being loathsome.

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

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

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

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

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

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night.

Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

... I felt as if I were living only in order to be more aware that I was dead.