Sex without pain is like food without taste

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

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

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