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.
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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What is more immoral than war?
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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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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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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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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