From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.


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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as po...
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abol...
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and th...
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, wit...
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather...
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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of...
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because y...
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of whic...
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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“All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another."
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simp...
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ...
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpleton...
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolitio...
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I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I k...
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's jus...
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women
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''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied...
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To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vit...
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How delicious are these implements of torture.
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True felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Last night you were, unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me . . . ...
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying gl...
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood...
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Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary...
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