“Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.”
― Literature and Evil
― Literature and Evil
“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Spring Snow
― Spring Snow
“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.”
― Story of the Eye
― Story of the Eye
“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.”
― Erotism: Death and Sensuality
― Erotism: Death and Sensuality
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