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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Marquis de Sade

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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Destructive Directly Energy Feed Nature New None Nothing Outgrace Vigor Weaken Wrecking
My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Alter Consider Existence Made Manner Power Reflection Straightforward Think
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
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Change Dammed Either Ever Kill Take
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
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Also Everything Frightful Inspiration Libertinage Natural Suggest
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Apparent Capable Certain Cruel Extreme Feeling Length Rather Seem Soul Strong Unconcern
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
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment
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
Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Food Pain Satisfy Sex Taste Without
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
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?
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Delight Depend Everything Imagination Mainspring Mean Now Sharp Supr
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Contrivance Dimmish Fear Mystery Precaution Protective

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