If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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