Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
MARQUIS DE SADELycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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