I don't recall the line from any of the books or writings, and it doesn't sound like anything he would have written. Were you just being cheeky or are you a De Sade fan just off the morning coffee?

"Eugenie, in a lowered and halting voice- But you say no crime exists there...and after all, it is but to fire the mind: one thinks, but one does not do" from Philosophy in the Bedroom.

Aside from S/M playing a role in his books the Marquis was the thinking man who presented his words to make us do the same. To base all the beauty of his writing on a bit of smut is to miss the point and imprison him into an historical stereotype.

Reading and understanding his use of bondage to symbolize more than the physical is key to liberating the Marquis spirit.

What are some of your favorite lines that he wrote and why?