I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADENature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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