What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
Marquis de SadeNo kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
Marquis de SadeThey declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Marquis de Sade