What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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