She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
Marquis de SadeSexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
Marquis de SadeI don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.
Marquis de Sade