Marquis de Sade — "How many times, by God's bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate plan…"

How many times, by God's bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to pluck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and replacing it with a lightless void of violence. Ah, that would be a crime! A cosmic crime, dwarfing the petty misdemeanours we are committing here, limited as we are to snuffing out a few meaningless souls.
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From his writings, likely dialogue from a character in one of his novels

Date: Late 18th century (approx.)

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