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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Marquis de Sade

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
The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Animal Before Bite Break Canary Emphatically Exist Infant Long Nature Ourselves Reason Savage Stamp
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
One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Insult Must Nature One Proportion Responsible Sorry Strange Taste Tendency Wrong
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
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Cradle Religion
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
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
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!
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Adulteress Girl Incestuous Maidenhead Process Sodomite Stroke Today
I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Error Victim Want
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Being Destructive Eternity Law Nature
Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Abregantion Anticipate Cause Desire Enable Exactness Naught Prompt Recommend
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Before Constitute Create Creature Entity Eternal Evil Exist Hideous Monstrous One Perishable World
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
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

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

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