Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADENow I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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