Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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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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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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