Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
MARQUIS DE SADEI have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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