The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADESexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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 think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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