In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
MARQUIS DE SADEBehold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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 rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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