Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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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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