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?
MARQUIS DE SADEThe horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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