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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Marquis de Sade

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Blush Dangerous Grown Old One Shame
Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique
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
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Balance Indulgence Pan Perfect Rather Routine Sex Symmetry
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
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Support Think
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
The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Beneath Blood Feel Flow Hell Man Read Young
Can we become other than what we are?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Ask Become Desire Other
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
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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All Fancy Moral Principle Universal
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Gratify Happiness Imaginary None Procedure Sense Virtue
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Concern Consequently Enjoyment Much Object Often Own Serve Themselves
The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Another Disposition Equality Experience Idea Kind Person Pleasure Same Spoil Unutterable
Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Altogether Civilization Cruelty Energy Man Simply Vice Virtue

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