Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
MARQUIS DE SADEIn an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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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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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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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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