In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy 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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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.
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