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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Marquis de Sade

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Ambition Avarice Cruelty Fluid Lend Life Lust Nervous Other Passion Revenge Strength Support Them

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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Conclude Create Crowd Expound God Hell Judge Men Most Notion Simply Theologian
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
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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God Like Own Shudder Side Son Strung Thank Veal
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Condemned Debility Design Enjoy Exercise Incoontestably Man More Nature Prove Strength Women Worse
The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Animal Before Bite Break Canary Emphatically Exist Infant Long Nature Ourselves Reason Savage Stamp
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Breed Nothing Pleasure
The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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All Complete Lot Submissiveness
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.
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Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
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
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Allow Appetite Drink Eat False Important Modesty Ought Restrain Satisfy Sex
If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Another Barbourous Crime Duplicate Law Make Punish Punishment
That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Around Attention Care Every Everything Man Think Torniacate Tyrant Utter Want
Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Food Pain Satisfy Sex Taste Without
Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Altogether Civilization Cruelty Energy Man Simply Vice Virtue
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Appreciate Choice Happiness Individual Make Nor One Organization Other Pursuant Virtue

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