I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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