Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADEBeauty 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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What is more immoral than war?
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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