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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIs it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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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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