Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADESex without pain is like food without taste
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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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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