It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that that unfortunate individual called man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses . . .
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.Marquis de Sade
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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