Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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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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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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