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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.

Marquis de Sade

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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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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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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Acquire Every Principle Excercise Experience Judgement Outcome Sense
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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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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