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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.

Marquis de Sade

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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Act Engage One Sexual Want
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Breed Nothing Pleasure
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
We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Crime Delightful Hundredfold Immolate Multiply New Object Turn World
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
Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Defym Care Either Fear Fig God Now Spiteful Thunderbolt
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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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Engimas God Good Just Nighty Supreme Tell Wish
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Food Pain Satisfy Sex Taste Without
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Act Asleep Effect Find Life Moment Myself Perpetual Should Single
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Always Arrive Pain Pleasure Way
I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Along Already Heart Sure Told Torment Woman

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