The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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