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

Marquis de Sade

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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
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
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Change Complain Easily Fate
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
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
Can we become other than what we are?
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Allow Ask Become Desire Other
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
Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Before Constitute Create Creature Entity Eternal Evil Exist Hideous Monstrous One Perishable World
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Flood Follow Govern Gutter Impulse Primitive Sea Waves
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Alter Fool Man Other Say Suit Think Tolerate
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Gratify Happiness Imaginary None Procedure Sense Virtue
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
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
Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Conscience Nature Prejudice Voice
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Barbarous Creator Destructive God Inconsistent Infamous Repent Today World

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