#an erotic beyond
“No matter how complete our dominion over another is, there is always an impassable zone, an inaccessible particle. The others are unreachable, not because they are impenetrable, but because they are infinite. Each person hides an infinity. No one can possess the totality of another for the same reason that no one can give of one’s self entirely. A total submission would be death, a negation both of possessing and giving. We ask for everything, and they give it to us: a death, nothing. ”
The Universal Dissolution, An Erotic Beyond: Sade by Octavio Paz
