Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
MARQUIS DE SADEYour body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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It 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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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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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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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.
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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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