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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Marquis de Sade

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
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
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
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Between Connection Daith Immediate Understanding
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Read Shell
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Act Engage One Sexual Want
At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
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
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
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Always Despite Enlarge Fantasise Interest Man Only Personal Scope Succeed Taste Unfortunate
I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Error Victim Want
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Flood Follow Govern Gutter Impulse Primitive Sea Waves
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense Sight
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Adopt Food Indeed Manner Other People Poor Suit Think
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

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