«IF ASKING IS FAIR, the reason is that he sees nothing with the eyes of power. Do not hope to judge and rule, for it ignores the exchange relationship. He is content with himself. Being the horn of the Amalthea of sexuality, it expresses better than anything else in the world of castration the will to live and its wonderful wildness.

IF, HOWEVER, THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE, suddenly part in hatred and contempt, the cause is not to be found in some immutable law of decadence, in some inexorable fate of fatigue. It comes from the vice of exchanges, which withers the passions, quenches the flames of the heart, stifles the impulses.

Rather than staying ALWAYS HUNGRY FOR EVERYTHING until the depths of saturation, here are lovers invoking duty, demanding proof, seeking a productivity of affection. Norms are imposed accompanied by the demand for their strict observance; reckless oblivion, clumsiness, impropriety, fantasizing are no longer tolerated; everything is an occasion for rebuke and sanction. Because they lack the will to create the change where they will be found again, they borrow the crutches of a society that cripples them by their generosity.

COLD LOGIC ACCEPTS THE INSANITY of abundance and comes to take stock of things. The treacherous times of asking and giving an account, of obligations paying in instalments for acknowledged rights, of friendships for friendships heralding the ‘one for you and one for me‘ of desperate prestige have arrived.

By IMAGINATING each other, by measuring mutual affection, each ends up convincing himself that the other's merits were a product of imagination, that generosity is not rewarded as it should be, and that the attraction was not at all justified.

ASKING Lament that he was assigned to an insolvent debtor, frustrations draw up a certificate of bankruptcy, passion ends in pettiness, affection in bargaining, friendship in slander...

HOW TO LIVE IN A WORLD where everything is paid for? The few pleasures that you have left to offer to others and to yourself, you have set out to exchange them, to account for them, to weigh them, to set parities.

TO DRINK WITH AN OPEN DRINK from the glass of life is the best guarantee that it will never run dry. Children know this, who take everything to offer to fortune. Sensual abundance enlivens their landscapes before the financial check begins the countdown to experience. Before they learn reciprocity, before they are initiated into deserving a gift, demanding what is due, rewarding for a gain, punishing for an understatement, thanking those who deprive them one by one of the attractions of an existence without return.

THE SAME IS TRUE FOR THE PASSENGERS, these children who have been rediscovered within themselves. Lovers give everything and take everything unconditionally. As if they are competing to see who will offer the most, without asking for anything in return. And this does not cease to give more strength to love, which draws new pleasures even from its languor and exhaustions.

IF THE CONSISTENCY OF MEETINGS offers me your love and offers you mine, do not reduce the harmony of our desires to an exchange... [Must I ask for reciprocation] in order to love? Do I love myself so little? Whoever is not full of his own desires can give nothing. Whoever walks on the path of giving and receiving, slowly advances towards boredom, fatigue and death...

WHOEVER KNOWS TO PRECISELY DISregard ENJOYMENT, ignores homelands and borders, masters and slaves, profit and loss. The sexual multitude is self-sufficient, it has in its space and in its time enough boldness to crush everything that hinders it.».