It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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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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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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