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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.

Marquis de Sade

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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Alter Consider Existence Made Manner Power Reflection Straightforward Think
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
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Assemble Concentrated Glass Immediate Magnifying Passion Point Ray Resemble Single Way
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Read Shell
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
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
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.
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Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense Sight
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Breed Nothing Pleasure
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
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Balance Indulgence Pan Perfect Rather Routine Sex Symmetry
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
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Flood Follow Govern Gutter Impulse Primitive Sea Waves
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
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
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two

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