Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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