Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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