Can we become other than what we are?
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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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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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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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