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.
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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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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