Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Ecstasy

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.

Judgment and Judges

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Pleasure

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.