"We monsters are necessary to nature also."

"My only religion is pleasure."

"What is crime? What is virtue? All depends on the point of view."

"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…"

"Crimes are always committed for the sake of enjoyment."