Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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