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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.

Marquis de Sade

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Fear 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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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