What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
MARQUIS DE SADESensual excess drives out pity in man.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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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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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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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.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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