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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

Marquis de Sade

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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Contrivance Dimmish Fear Mystery Precaution Protective
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
I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Along Already Heart Sure Told Torment Woman
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Conclude Create Crowd Expound God Hell Judge Men Most Notion Simply Theologian
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
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Do Dong Here Image Like Only
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
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Capacity Each Endowed Feeling Kindly Nature Other Squander
For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Comfort Disapprove Greatest Happiness Life More Source System
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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Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
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
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
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
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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