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 SADEEvil 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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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