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.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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I 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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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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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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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