Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
MARQUIS DE SADESocial order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Evil 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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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