Pierre Klossowski Quotes

• There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very few listeners, so that man can only, as it were, chatter on in the void when he pours out his confessions: he squanders his ‘truths’, as the sun does its light. - Isn’t it rather a pity that the void has no ears?

  Pierre Klossowski

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Pierre Klossowski (2005). “EPZ Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle”, p.2, A&C Black

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• The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

  Pierre Klossowski

  Violent Acts, Ideas, Violent

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