Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
MARQUIS DE SADEBehold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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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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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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