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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Arter Behaviour Figure Harmful Individual Opinion Public State Vice
I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Error Victim Want
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
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Amuse Characteristics Degradation Delight Please Plunge Punuish Stae
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
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
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Arise Imagination Pleasure Sharp
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul
What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Aesthetic Again Change Choleric Dissolute Everything Extreme Imagination Imperious Irascible Nutshell
Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Being Deep Deserve Down Enjoy Gone Such Treat Way
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Complete Every Majority Pop Respect Star
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
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Act Author Forget Inframie Naught Opinion Prejudice Qualified Sole
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
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

Application Conflict Contradiction Forge Interest Law Perpetual Personal Universal

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