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“Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.”

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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

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“To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover…

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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make…

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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of…

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The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day…

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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

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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…

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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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