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 SADEYour body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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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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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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