Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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