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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Marquis de Sade

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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Acquaint First Know Order Ourselves Virtue
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
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?
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Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Beautiful Beginning Bestically Conspiracy Intigrel Novel Plot Priest Say Techwrous Thick
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Assemble Concentrated Glass Immediate Magnifying Passion Point Ray Resemble Single Way
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
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Creature Delicate Delight Imagination Moment Out Pleasure Resist Single Whole World
So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Absurd Civilize Consequence Depravity Maintain Cruelty Men Nature Nearer
All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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According Arbitrarily Born Class Free Grant Hand Legitimate Lose Men Posses Principle Sex Sight
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
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Act Bound Dirtier Dirty Element Give More Pleasurable Pleasure
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Act Engage One Sexual Want

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