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.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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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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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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 delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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