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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…

Marquis de Sade

I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Read Shell
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Defect Less Lovable May More Older Resound Success
I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Error Victim Want
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Complete Every Majority Pop Respect Star
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
MARQUIS DE SADE

Absurd Civilize Consequence Depravity Maintain Cruelty Men Nature Nearer
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Beyond Border Entice Let Principle Share Zeal
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Gratify Happiness Imaginary None Procedure Sense Virtue
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique
Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Arduous Immediately Painful Service Slightest
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Abregantion Anticipate Cause Desire Enable Exactness Naught Prompt Recommend
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Anarchy Century Compare Country Dangerous Inhabit Legalism Like Love Passion Strongest
One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Insult Must Nature One Proportion Responsible Sorry Strange Taste Tendency Wrong
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Say Suppose Think

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