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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

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
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Change Dammed Either Ever Kill Take
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Change Complain Easily Fate
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
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
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
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Act Bound Dirtier Dirty Element Give More Pleasurable Pleasure
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Adopt Food Indeed Manner Other People Poor Suit Think
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
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Always Despite Enlarge Fantasise Interest Man Only Personal Scope Succeed Taste Unfortunate
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
One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Insult Must Nature One Proportion Responsible Sorry Strange Taste Tendency Wrong
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.
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Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Allow Already Delicate Different Flower Lover Nevertheless Pluck Rose Sometimes
What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
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

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