The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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