Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
MARQUIS DE SADECertain 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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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What is more immoral than war?
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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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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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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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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