We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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