Pierre Klossowski Quotes

Pierre Klossowski was a French philosopher, novelist, translator, and visual artist, the elder brother of the painter Balthus, and one of the strangest figures of mid-twentieth-century French thought. His Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle developed a singular reading of the eternal return as a doctrine of the simulacrum and of the dissolution of the unity of the self, while his Sade My Neighbor read the Marquis de Sade as a thinker of perversion and atheology rather than as a mere libertine. The quotes below are attributed to Pierre Klossowski, organized by topic.