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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

Marquis de Sade

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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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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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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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