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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Marquis de Sade

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.
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Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
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.
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Insult Must Nature One Proportion Responsible Sorry Strange Taste Tendency Wrong
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Batten Consume Immolate Lamb Strong Upon Victim Weal Wolves
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Beauty Belong Extraordinary Imagination Ordinary Question Simply Ugliness
Can we become other than what we are?
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Allow Ask Become Desire Other
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
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Abstraction Being Entirely Feel Happiness Imagination Moved Product Spend Way
I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Error Victim Want
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
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Gratify Happiness Imaginary None Procedure Sense Virtue
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
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Command Day Nature Other Two Voice
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Conviction Devil Fragile God Illusory Opposition Presence Reveal Stand
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment
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

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