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.
MARQUIS DE SADEHence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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