Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
MARQUIS DE SADENo kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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