Can we become other than what we are?

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• Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not...
• It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
• We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her...
• You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his...
• Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
• Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen,...
• Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
• In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
• My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass:...
• Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It...
• Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather...
• Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
• One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
• My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool...
• How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not...