I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADEGod strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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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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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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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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