Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

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

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.