Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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