Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
MARQUIS DE SADEThe mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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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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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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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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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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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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Beauty 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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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