The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
MARQUIS DE SADEYour service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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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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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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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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