And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
MARQUIS DE SADEBeauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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 most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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What is more immoral than war?
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