The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
MARQUIS DE SADEAre your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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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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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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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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