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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!


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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...
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