My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
MARQUIS DE SADENever 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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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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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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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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