Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADEAnd if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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