What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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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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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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