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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.

Marquis de Sade

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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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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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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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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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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.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve 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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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