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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.

Marquis de Sade

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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
MARQUIS DE SADE

Love Pride Stronger
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
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Asleep Effect Find Life Moment Myself Perpetual Should Single
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Always Arrive Pain Pleasure Way
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
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Become Enemy Expect Laugh Man Necessarily Prejudice Reason Scorn
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Conscience Nature Prejudice Voice
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
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
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Assume Entire Everything Flatter Right Satisfy Universe Whim Yield
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Drive Excess Man Out Puty Sensual
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Destructive Directly Energy Feed Nature New None Nothing Outgrace Vigor Weaken Wrecking

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