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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.

Marquis de Sade

Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Appear Hope Human Misfortune Nothingless Race Return Ridiculous Tournament
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
MARQUIS DE SADE

Blade Crunch Endless Guillotine Line Procession See Up Write
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Defect Less Lovable May More Older Resound Success
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
Can we become other than what we are?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Ask Become Desire Other
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Animal Before Bite Break Canary Emphatically Exist Infant Long Nature Ourselves Reason Savage Stamp
At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Any Enjoyment Share Weekend
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

Delight Depend Everything Imagination Mainspring Mean Now Sharp Supr
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Become Enemy Expect Laugh Man Necessarily Prejudice Reason Scorn
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Condemned Debility Design Enjoy Exercise Incoontestably Man More Nature Prove Strength Women Worse
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Anarchy Century Compare Country Dangerous Inhabit Legalism Like Love Passion Strongest
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Along Already Heart Sure Told Torment Woman
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly

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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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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