There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADEHow 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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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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