What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
MARQUIS DE SADELet us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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