I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADEIf it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Nothing 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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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