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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

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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Everything Happy Isdiscrimately Let Ourselves Passion Suggest
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Drive Excess Man Out Puty Sensual
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
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Change Complain Easily Fate
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Creaturem Thrown Decreed Flock Half Mankind Miserable Moment Mud Pile Prosecutor Surface
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Command Day Nature Other Two Voice
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
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!
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Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Defym Care Either Fear Fig God Now Spiteful Thunderbolt
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Do Dong Here Image Like Only
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
I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Along Already Heart Sure Told Torment Woman
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
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Active Impression Keener Kind More Pain Sensation Unmistakable
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Assume Entire Everything Flatter Right Satisfy Universe Whim Yield
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.
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Chaos Corruption Disturbance Effect Felt General Moment Probation Single Some
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Blade Crunch Endless Guillotine Line Procession See Up Write
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Frightful Horror Moreover Nastiness Pleasure Proven
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Contrivance Dimmish Fear Mystery Precaution Protective
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Behaviour Boy Good Idea Little Naughty Spank
What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Also Everything Frightful Inspiration Libertinage Natural Suggest
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
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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God Like Own Shudder Side Son Strung Thank Veal

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