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.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhy do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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