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.
MARQUIS DE SADEReligions are the cradles of despotism.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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