People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!