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!
MARQUIS DE SADEWere he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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