The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADEGet 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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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