What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
MARQUIS DE SADEAt all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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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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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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