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.
MARQUIS DE SADETo 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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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 body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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