Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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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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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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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