I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADELet us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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!
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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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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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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