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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.

Marquis de Sade

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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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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 completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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 is more immoral than war?
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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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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Condemned Debility Design Enjoy Exercise Incoontestably Man More Nature Prove Strength Women Worse
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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