The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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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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