Marquis de Sade — "My friend, you must understand that I am a man of letters, and that is why I wri…"

"I have no God, no morality, no law but my will. I reject the poison that they call religion, for it is nothing but a chain that binds the soul, a vile invention of the cowardly man to escape the torme…"

"Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vi…"

"My philosophy is simple: pleasure is the only good, and pain is the only evil."

"There is no better way to know death than to link it with some licentious image."

"There is no act more sublime than that of destruction."