Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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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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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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