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.
MARQUIS DE SADEI have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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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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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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