Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADEGood for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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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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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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