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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Chocked Crime Imbecile Spare Speak World
Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Enlarge Individual Law Life Protect Quater Taste Trouble
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Complete Every Majority Pop Respect Star
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Adulteress Girl Incestuous Maidenhead Process Sodomite Stroke Today
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Fool Man Other Say Suit Think Tolerate
There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense Sight
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Appreciate Choice Happiness Individual Make Nor One Organization Other Pursuant Virtue
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Creature Delicate Delight Imagination Moment Out Pleasure Resist Single Whole World
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Ambition Avarice Cruelty Fluid Lend Life Lust Nervous Other Passion Revenge Strength Support Them
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
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Despite Enlarge Fantasise Interest Man Only Personal Scope Succeed Taste Unfortunate
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Amuse Characteristics Degradation Delight Please Plunge Punuish Stae
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Asleep Effect Find Life Moment Myself Perpetual Should Single

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