Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
MARQUIS DE SADEOne must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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