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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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What is more immoral than war?
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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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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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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