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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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