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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

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Change Complain Easily Fate
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Agree Other Pasion Pleasure Sexual Subordinate Unite
According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Another Change Death Existence Imperceptible Irrefutable Passage
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
Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Abregantion Anticipate Cause Desire Enable Exactness Naught Prompt Recommend
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Read Shell
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.
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Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Alter Fool Man Other Suit Think Way
Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
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
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
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Born Character Courage Enslaving Fear Fellow Fool Formed Get Head Men Nothing Once Philosophy Simple Stoicism Weak Weakness
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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All Fancy Moral Principle Universal
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Act Asleep Effect Find Life Moment Myself Perpetual Should Single
We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Crime Delightful Hundredfold Immolate Multiply New Object Turn World
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle

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.

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