Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
MARQUIS DE SADESex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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.
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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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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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