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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.

Marquis de Sade

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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Act Exclusive Less May never Possession Slave Unjust Woman
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Blade Crunch Endless Guillotine Line Procession See Up Write
Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Always Beauty Exceptional Extraordinary Imagination Prefer Simple Thing
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
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Born Character Courage Enslaving Fear Fellow Fool Formed Get Head Men Nothing Once Philosophy Simple Stoicism Weak Weakness
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Amuse Characteristics Degradation Delight Please Plunge Punuish Stae
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Change Complain Easily Fate
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Alter Fool Man Other Say Suit Think Tolerate
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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Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense Sight
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Command Day Nature Other Two Voice
What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Desire Greater More Object One Pleasure Surrender Violence
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment
Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Enlarge Individual Law Life Protect Quater Taste Trouble
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Abstraction Being Entirely Feel Happiness Imagination Moved Product Spend Way

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