In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
MARQUIS DE SADEAll men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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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