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.
MARQUIS DE SADENature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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 idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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