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.
MARQUIS DE SADEDon’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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