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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Marquis de Sade

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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Being Contradict Inner Made Reflection Result Think Way Wish
There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense Sight
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Say Suppose Think
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Being Destructive Eternity Law Nature
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
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Breed Nothing Pleasure
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
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Read Shell
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Change Complain Easily Fate
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Batten Consume Immolate Lamb Strong Upon Victim Weal Wolves
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Between Connection Daith Immediate Understanding
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Concern Consequently Enjoyment Much Object Often Own Serve Themselves
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
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Fool Man Other Say Suit Think Tolerate
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Assume Entire Everything Flatter Right Satisfy Universe Whim Yield
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul

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