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To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.


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MARQUIS DE SADE It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ...
MARQUIS DE SADE The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpleton...
MARQUIS DE SADE In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADE The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind
MARQUIS DE SADE 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolitio...
MARQUIS DE SADE I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I k...
SADE ANDRIA ZABALA Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADE The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's jus...
MARQUIS DE SADE It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women
MARQUIS DE SADE ''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied...
MARQUIS DE SADE To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vit...
MARQUIS DE SADE How delicious are these implements of torture.
MARQUIS DE SADE True felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADE Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE Last night you were, unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me . . . ...
MARQUIS DE SADE Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist
MARQUIS DE SADE My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying gl...
MARQUIS DE SADE What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
MARQUIS DE SADE The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.
MARQUIS DE SADE I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADE Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain
MARQUIS DE SADE Sex without pain is like food without taste
MARQUIS DE SADE We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood...
MARQUIS DE SADE Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
MARQUIS DE SADE Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary...
MARQUIS DE SADE