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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.

Marquis de Sade

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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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