Can we become other than what we are?

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.