Sex without pain is like food without taste
MARQUIS DE SADEWe 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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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