Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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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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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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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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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 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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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