If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
MARQUIS DE SADEOne must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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