The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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