Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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