My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
MARQUIS DE SADEThe majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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