"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…"

"I have always been convinced that the universe is a place of perpetual motion, and that this motion is always tending towards destruction."

"Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?"

"The only true crime is to deny oneself pleasure."

"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice."