Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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