Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADEDread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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