If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
MARQUIS DE SADESexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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