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 SADEConversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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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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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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