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. (Marquis de Sade)

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.

Marquis de Sade

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