Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.

Man desires, woman is desired.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who, when she no longer needs something that has served her, tosses it away, while her abuses, indeed her killing it, are its lascivious bliss.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.