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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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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
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Acquaint First Know Order Ourselves Virtue
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Behaviour Boy Good Idea Little Naughty Spank
The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Another Disposition Equality Experience Idea Kind Person Pleasure Same Spoil Unutterable
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Creaturem Thrown Decreed Flock Half Mankind Miserable Moment Mud Pile Prosecutor Surface
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
Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
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
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Active Impression Keener Kind More Pain Sensation Unmistakable
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
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
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
Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Beautiful Beginning Bestically Conspiracy Intigrel Novel Plot Priest Say Techwrous Thick
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
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

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