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.
MARQUIS DE SADENo kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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What is more immoral than war?
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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