Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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