What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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 most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Hence, 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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