Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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