Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat 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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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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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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Every 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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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