Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe 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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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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.
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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 does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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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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