Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
MARQUIS DE SADEBeauty 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
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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Certain 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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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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