Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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 reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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