We monsters are necessary to nature also.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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She 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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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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