Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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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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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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My 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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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