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.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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