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.

(Story of the Eye) (under pseudonym of Lord Auch)
L'Anus solaire 1931. Trans. 1851) a tax collector and Antoinette-Aglaë Tournarde (b.

Eroticism sovereignty and transgression are at the core of his writings.