How Cruel My Suffering Is,—no

To Others, The Universe Seems Decent Because Decent People Have Welded Eyes. That Is Why They Fear Lewdness. They Are Never Frightened By The Crowing Of A Rooster Or When Strolling Under A Starry Heaven. In General, People Savor The "pleasures Of The Flesh" Only On The Condition That They May Be Insipid.

The Fact Is, That What De Sade Was Trying To Bring To The Surface Of The Conscious Mind Was Precisely The Thing That Revolted That Mind . . . From The Very First He Set Before The Consciousness Things Which It Could Not Tolerate.

Literature ... Is The Rediscovery Of Childhood.

Not Every Woman Is A Prostitute, But Prostitution Is The Natural Apotheosis Of The Feminine Attitude.

By Inner Experience I Understand That Which One Usually Calls Mystical Experience: The States Of Ecstasy, Of Rapture, At Least Of Meditated Emotion. But I Am Thinking Less Of Confessional Experience, To Which One Has Had To Adhere Up To Now, That Of An Experience Laid Bare, Free Of Ties, Even Of An Origin, Of Any Confession Whatever. This Is Why I Don't Like The Word Mystical.