How Cruel My Suffering Is,—no One Is

By The Care She Lavishes On Her Toilet, By The Concern She Has For Her Beauty Set Off By Her Adornment, A Woman Regards Herself As An Object Always Trying To Attract Men's Attention.

The Circumstances Of My Life Are Paralyzing.

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.

Sacrifice Is Nothing Other Than The Production Of Sacred Things.

Inner Experience ... Is Not Easily Accessible And, Viewed From The Outside By Intelligence, It Would Even Be Necessary To See In It A Sum Of Distinct Operations, Some Intellectual, Others Aesthetic, Yet Others Moral. ... It Is Only From Within, Lived To The Point Of Terror, That It Appears To Unify That Which Discursive Thought Must Separate.