Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhy do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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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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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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The 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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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