"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."

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

"I have never done anything wrong in my life, except to think."

"We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves."

"My tastes are not general, I admit; but they are not criminal."