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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.

Marquis de Sade

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Agree Other Pasion Pleasure Sexual Subordinate Unite
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Destructive Directly Energy Feed Nature New None Nothing Outgrace Vigor Weaken Wrecking
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADE

God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Consider Existence Made Manner Power Reflection Straightforward Think
I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Error Victim Want
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Fool Man Other Say Suit Think Tolerate
Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Enlarge Individual Law Life Protect Quater Taste Trouble
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Fool Man Other Suit Think Way
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Assume Entire Everything Flatter Right Satisfy Universe Whim Yield
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Behaviour Boy Good Idea Little Naughty Spank
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Born Character Courage Enslaving Fear Fellow Fool Formed Get Head Men Nothing Once Philosophy Simple Stoicism Weak Weakness
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Another Beautiful Frightful Hate Man Mirror Same See

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.

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