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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

Marquis de Sade

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Read Shell
Sex without pain is like food without taste
MARQUIS DE SADE

Food Pain Satisfy Sex Taste Without
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Do Dong Here Image Like Only
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Become Enemy Expect Laugh Man Necessarily Prejudice Reason Scorn
We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Delightful Hundredfold Immolate Multiply New Object Turn World
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Ambition Avarice Cruelty Fluid Lend Life Lust Nervous Other Passion Revenge Strength Support Them
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Credit Miracle Mountebank Number Require Thing Two Win Women
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Asleep Effect Find Life Moment Myself Perpetual Should Single
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Come Kind Object Offer Pleasure Profanation Sacrilege Worship
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Beautiful Most Motion Nature Primary Quality
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Delight Depend Everything Imagination Mainspring Mean Now Sharp Supr
Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Arduous Immediately Painful Service Slightest

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