Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

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