One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
MARQUIS DE SADEBehold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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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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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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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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What is more immoral than war?
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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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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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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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.
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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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