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.
MARQUIS DE SADEOne must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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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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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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