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MARQUIS DE SADEAnything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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