Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
MARQUIS DE SADEVariety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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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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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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