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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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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Acquire Every Principle Excercise Experience Judgement Outcome Sense
What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Being Cause Chemical Earth Empty Ever Face Flow More Name Political Will
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.
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Being Contradict Inner Made Reflection Result Think Way Wish
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
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Become Enemy Expect Laugh Man Necessarily Prejudice Reason Scorn
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Apparent Capable Certain Cruel Extreme Feeling Length Rather Seem Soul Strong Unconcern
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Contrivance Dimmish Fear Mystery Precaution Protective
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Appaling Bond Devised Discomfort Horror Humankind Loathsome Most
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Bargain Expense Hardly Liberty Order Social
Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Appear Hope Human Misfortune Nothingless Race Return Ridiculous Tournament
The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Beneath Blood Feel Flow Hell Man Read Young
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
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Amuse Characteristics Degradation Delight Please Plunge Punuish Stae
What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Barbarous Creator Destructive God Inconsistent Infamous Repent Today World

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