How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
MARQUIS DE SADECrime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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