My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
MARQUIS DE SADEHence, 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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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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