How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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