The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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