What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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