We Have In Fact Only Two Certainties

The Power Of Death Signifies That This Real World Can Only Have A Neutral Image Of Life, That Life's Intimacy Does Not Reveal It's Dazzling Consumption Until The Moment It Gives Out.

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.

I Believe That Truth Has Only One Face: That Of A Violent Contradiction.

We Have In Fact Only Two Certainties In This World - That We Are Not Everything And That We Will Die.

Extreme Seductiveness Is At The Boundary Of Horror