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.
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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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 man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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