Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Can we become other than what we are?
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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