One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
MARQUIS DE SADEI have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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