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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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