It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Your 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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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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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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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