There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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