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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

Marquis de Sade

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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Defym Care Either Fear Fig God Now Spiteful Thunderbolt
So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Assume Entire Everything Flatter Right Satisfy Universe Whim Yield
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Chocked Crime Imbecile Spare Speak World
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Credit Miracle Mountebank Number Require Thing Two Win Women
The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Animal Before Bite Break Canary Emphatically Exist Infant Long Nature Ourselves Reason Savage Stamp
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Beauty Belong Extraordinary Imagination Ordinary Question Simply Ugliness
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Being Deep Deserve Down Enjoy Gone Such Treat Way

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