We Did Not Lack Modesty—on

Sacrifice Is Nothing Other Than The Production Of Sacred Things.

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, Try To Look Through The Cracks In The World.

We Have In Fact Only Two Certainties In This World - That We Are Not Everything And That We Will Die.

Eroticism Differs From Animal Sexuality In That Human Sexuality Is Limited By Taboos And The Domain Of Eroticism Is That Of The Transgression Of These Taboos. Desire In Eroticism Is The Desire That Triumphs Over The Taboo. It Presupposes Man In Conflict With Himself.

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?