Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
MARQUIS DE SADEWolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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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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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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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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!
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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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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