It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADEPregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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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.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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