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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.

Marquis de Sade

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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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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 man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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