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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

Marquis de Sade

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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Act Engage One Sexual Want
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
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
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Batten Consume Immolate Lamb Strong Upon Victim Weal Wolves
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Act Author Forget Inframie Naught Opinion Prejudice Qualified Sole
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
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
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
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
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Always Another Beautiful Frightful Hate Man Mirror Same See
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Read Shell
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.
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Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two
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.
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Appreciate Choice Happiness Individual Make Nor One Organization Other Pursuant Virtue
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Apparent Capable Certain Cruel Extreme Feeling Length Rather Seem Soul Strong Unconcern
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Conviction Devil Fragile God Illusory Opposition Presence Reveal Stand
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence

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