The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADEEvery principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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