Can we become other than what we are?
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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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