I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
MARQUIS DE SADENever 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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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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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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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