Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADEVariety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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