What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
MARQUIS DE SADEFor my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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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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