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- It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
- Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell…
- Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows…
- I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.
- Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness…
- I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of…
- Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
- Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends…
- I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
- Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and…
- Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is…
- The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of…
- What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you,…
- 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…
- Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.
- I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.
- What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
- It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown…
- Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the…
- 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.…
- Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
- The heart deceives, because it is never anything but the expression of the minds miscalculations I dont know what the heart is, not I: I…
- Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing but a weakness…
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