My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
MARQUIS DE SADENothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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