In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADENature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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