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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .

Marquis de Sade

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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
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
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Cause Misfortune Mode Other Through
Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique
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
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Blush Dangerous Grown Old One Shame
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
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
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Also Everything Frightful Inspiration Libertinage Natural Suggest
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Do Dong Here Image Like Only
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Bargain Expense Hardly Liberty Order Social
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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Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think
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
Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Being Deep Deserve Down Enjoy Gone Such Treat Way

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