No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
MARQUIS DE SADENo kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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