Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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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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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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