So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
MARQUIS DE SADEBetween understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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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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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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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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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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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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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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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