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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

Marquis de Sade

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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Born Character Courage Enslaving Fear Fellow Fool Formed Get Head Men Nothing Once Philosophy Simple Stoicism Weak Weakness
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Alter Fool Man Other Suit Think Way
Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Ambition Associate Christ Country Divine Great Jesus People Peron Place Rogues Thought Tyrant
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Blade Crunch Endless Guillotine Line Procession See Up Write
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
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
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
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
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
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Complete Every Majority Pop Respect Star
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Another Carry Crime Destroy Dread Evacuating Infanticide Kind Medicine Mistress Womb
Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Food Pain Satisfy Sex Taste Without
If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Another Barbourous Crime Duplicate Law Make Punish Punishment
All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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According Arbitrarily Born Class Free Grant Hand Legitimate Lose Men Posses Principle Sex Sight

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