Sade I: Introduction to the Divine Marquis Lyrics

"…Bleeding corpses, children ravished from their mother's arms, young girls massacred at the end of an orgy, cups overflowing with blood and wine, unimaginable sufferings, inconceivable tortures…What a tireless monster;…When he reaches the end of his crimes, when he has exhausted his fund of incest and bestialities, when at last he is there, panting over the bodies he has stabbed and violated, when there remains no church to be polluted, no child he has not butchered in his rage, not a single moral idea upon which he has not smeared filth of his odious doctrines and language, only then is it that he halts…and looks at himself…and smiles."

Jules Janin, Revue De Paris, 1834