I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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