For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADEOne must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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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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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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