Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADEShe had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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