Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADEEither kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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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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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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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