Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
MARQUIS DE SADEThread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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