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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.

Marquis de Sade

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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Application Conflict Contradiction Forge Interest Law Perpetual Personal Universal
What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Barbarous Creator Destructive God Inconsistent Infamous Repent Today World
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Change Dammed Either Ever Kill Take
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Cradle Religion
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Drive Excess Man Out Puty Sensual
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
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
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.
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Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Approve Care Manner Say Suppose Think
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Agree Other Pasion Pleasure Sexual Subordinate Unite
Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Appear Hope Human Misfortune Nothingless Race Return Ridiculous Tournament
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
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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