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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!

Marquis de Sade

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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Another Change Death Existence Imperceptible Irrefutable Passage
The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Beneath Blood Feel Flow Hell Man Read Young
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Comfort Disapprove Greatest Happiness Life More Source System
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
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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Become Enemy Expect Laugh Man Necessarily Prejudice Reason Scorn
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
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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Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Delight Depend Everything Imagination Mainspring Mean Now Sharp Supr
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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Gratify Happiness Imaginary None Procedure Sense Virtue
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Contrivance Dimmish Fear Mystery Precaution Protective
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think

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