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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!

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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Acquire Every Principle Excercise Experience Judgement Outcome Sense
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
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Approve Care Manner Say Suppose Think
The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Beautiful Most Motion Nature Primary Quality
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Beauty Belong Extraordinary Imagination Ordinary Question Simply Ugliness
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
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Gratify Happiness Imaginary None Procedure Sense Virtue
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
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Anarchy Century Compare Country Dangerous Inhabit Legalism Like Love Passion Strongest
Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Body Children Deform Enemy Into Late Turn Twenty Women Years
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
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Read Shell
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.
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Damage Darken Event Figure Charm Hang Health Husband Mood Pregnancy Uncertainty
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Cause Misfortune Mode Other Through
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Abstraction Being Entirely Feel Happiness Imagination Moved Product Spend Way
Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Ambition Avarice Cruelty Fluid Lend Life Lust Nervous Other Passion Revenge Strength Support Them
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
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Destructive Directly Energy Feed Nature New None Nothing Outgrace Vigor Weaken Wrecking
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Drive Excess Man Out Puty Sensual
Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Conscience Nature Prejudice Voice
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 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
My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Being Contradict Inner Made Reflection Result Think Way Wish
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

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