One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
MARQUIS DE SADEConversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Never 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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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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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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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