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?
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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