Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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