I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADEFear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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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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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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