Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
All of a sudden it didn’t bother me not being modern.
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
What love lays bare in me is energy.
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject’s dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other...