One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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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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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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If 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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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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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