Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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