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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

Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Abregantion Anticipate Cause Desire Enable Exactness Naught Prompt Recommend
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
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Country Crime Criminal Essential Horror Murder Necessary Republican State Tolerate
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Delight Depend Everything Imagination Mainspring Mean Now Sharp Supr
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
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Destroy Everything Interferred Pleasure
Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Arduous Immediately Painful Service Slightest
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Approve Care Manner Support Think
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Active Impression Keener Kind More Pain Sensation Unmistakable
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Change Complain Easily Fate
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
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Corrupt Delicious Heart Religion Semblance Stifie Virtue Young
When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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Chaos Corruption Disturbance Effect Felt General Moment Probation Single Some

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.

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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.

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