My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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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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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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