Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADEBehold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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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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