Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
Marquis de SadeMy passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
Marquis de SadeThere is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
Marquis de SadeFear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
Marquis de Sade