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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.

Marquis de Sade

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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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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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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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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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