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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Arise Imagination Pleasure Sharp
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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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
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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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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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.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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