The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
MARQUIS DE SADEThat everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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