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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

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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?
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Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Also Monster Nature Necessary
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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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
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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
Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Any Enjoyment Share Weekend
If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Another Barbourous Crime Duplicate Law Make Punish Punishment
Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Food Pain Satisfy Sex Taste Without
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Act Author Forget Inframie Naught Opinion Prejudice Qualified Sole
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Agree Other Pasion Pleasure Sexual Subordinate Unite
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

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