Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat is more immoral than war?
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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