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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

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Already Delicate Different Flower Lover Nevertheless Pluck Rose Sometimes
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Agree Other Pasion Pleasure Sexual Subordinate Unite
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Cruel Discretion Display Employ Force Law Let Long Loud Obliged Opinion Ourselves Privacy Public Remain Silence Some Today
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Between Connection Daith Immediate Understanding
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Support Think
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Read Shell
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Accordance Always Imagination Pleasure Regulate Sense
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Acquaint First Know Order Ourselves Virtue
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

Always Beauty Exceptional Extraordinary Imagination Prefer Simple Thing
Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Damage Darken Event Figure Charm Hang Health Husband Mood Pregnancy Uncertainty
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
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

Crime Delightful Hundredfold Immolate Multiply New Object Turn World
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
MARQUIS DE SADE

God Like Own Shudder Side Son Strung Thank Veal
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Contrivance Dimmish Fear Mystery Precaution Protective
The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Beneath Blood Feel Flow Hell Man Read Young

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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