I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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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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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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