Sex without pain is like food without taste
MARQUIS DE SADEI write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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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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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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