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.
MARQUIS DE SADEConversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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