One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
Marquis de SadeCertain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.
Marquis de SadeWe are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
Marquis de SadeLust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade