What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
MARQUIS DE SADEMiserable 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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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 only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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