What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
MARQUIS DE SADEChimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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