Marquis de Sade — "The only limit to our desires is our imagination."

"Virtue is a chimera, a dream, a fantasy."

"My manner of thinking, so you say, is an abomination. And yet, I have never been able to think otherwise."

"Nature has granted me a temperament that is too ardent, a soul too impetuous, a character too strong, for me to be able to submit to the yoke of any laws."

"Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime?"

"Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other."