Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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Chimerical 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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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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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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