And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
MARQUIS DE SADEThe horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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