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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.

Marquis de Sade

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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Another Carry Crime Destroy Dread Evacuating Infanticide Kind Medicine Mistress Womb
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Creature Delicate Delight Imagination Moment Out Pleasure Resist Single Whole World
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
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.
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Act Asleep Effect Find Life Moment Myself Perpetual Should Single
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Being Cause Chemical Earth Empty Ever Face Flow More Name Political Will
The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Arratly Bizzare Conflict Every Extraordinary Human Institution Law Most Sem
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Assemble Concentrated Glass Immediate Magnifying Passion Point Ray Resemble Single Way
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Read Shell
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!
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Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Approve Care Manner Say Suppose Think
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
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Appreciate Choice Happiness Individual Make Nor One Organization Other Pursuant Virtue
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Frightful Horror Moreover Nastiness Pleasure Proven
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Drive Excess Man Out Puty Sensual
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Pride Stronger
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Cruel Discretion Display Employ Force Law Let Long Loud Obliged Opinion Ourselves Privacy Public Remain Silence Some Today

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