My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
MARQUIS DE SADEMurder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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!
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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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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