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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Marquis de Sade

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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
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Drive Excess Man Out Puty Sensual
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
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
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.
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Always Another Beautiful Frightful Hate Man Mirror Same See
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.
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Ambition Avarice Cruelty Fluid Lend Life Lust Nervous Other Passion Revenge Strength Support Them
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Act Engage One Sexual Want
What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Chocked Crime Imbecile Spare Speak World
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Come Kind Object Offer Pleasure Profanation Sacrilege Worship
The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Beautiful Most Motion Nature Primary Quality
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
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Abstraction Being Entirely Feel Happiness Imagination Moved Product Spend Way
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
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Always Arrive Pain Pleasure Way
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Breed Nothing Pleasure

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