The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
MARQUIS DE SADECan we become other than what we are?
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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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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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