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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Marquis de Sade

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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
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Cruel Discretion Display Employ Force Law Let Long Loud Obliged Opinion Ourselves Privacy Public Remain Silence Some Today
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
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
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Capacity Each Endowed Feeling Kindly Nature Other Squander
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
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Always Another Beautiful Frightful Hate Man Mirror Same See
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
I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Destroy Everything Interferred Pleasure
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Appaling Bond Devised Discomfort Horror Humankind Loathsome Most
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Creature Delicate Delight Imagination Moment Out Pleasure Resist Single Whole World
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.
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Act Asleep Effect Find Life Moment Myself Perpetual Should Single
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
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
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Pride Stronger
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

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