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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 despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

Marquis de Sade

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Can we become other than what we are?
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Allow Ask Become Desire Other
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Act Engage One Sexual Want
If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Another Barbourous Crime Duplicate Law Make Punish Punishment
All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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According Arbitrarily Born Class Free Grant Hand Legitimate Lose Men Posses Principle Sex Sight
Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Conscience Nature Prejudice Voice
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Accordance Always Imagination Pleasure Regulate Sense
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Behold Example Incest Love Scandal Seduction Simultaneously Sodomy
Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Body Children Deform Enemy Into Late Turn Twenty Women Years
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Application Conflict Contradiction Forge Interest Law Perpetual Personal Universal
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Do Dong Here Image Like Only
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Act Author Forget Inframie Naught Opinion Prejudice Qualified Sole
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Become Enemy Expect Laugh Man Necessarily Prejudice Reason Scorn

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