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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Marquis de Sade

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
MARQUIS DE SADE

Acquire Every Principle Excercise Experience Judgement Outcome Sense
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?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Consider Existence Made Manner Power Reflection Straightforward Think
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

Allow Already Delicate Different Flower Lover Nevertheless Pluck Rose Sometimes
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Cause Misfortune Mode Other Through
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Frightful Horror Moreover Nastiness Pleasure Proven
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

According Arbitrarily Born Class Free Grant Hand Legitimate Lose Men Posses Principle Sex Sight
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Appetite Drink Eat False Important Modesty Ought Restrain Satisfy Sex
Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Damage Darken Event Figure Charm Hang Health Husband Mood Pregnancy Uncertainty
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique
What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Adopt Food Indeed Manner Other People Poor Suit Think

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