We monsters are necessary to nature also.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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