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.

So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

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

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.