The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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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.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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