I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe 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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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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