Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Crime 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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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