Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy 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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Were 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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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