The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADELust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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