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 SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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