The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADEDon’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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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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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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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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