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Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.
The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.
I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.
Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror
You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.
Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.
How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.
My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.
Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.
I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.
The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.
An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?