It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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What is more immoral than war?
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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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 primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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