The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADENature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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