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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?

Marquis de Sade

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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Arise Imagination Pleasure Sharp
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
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
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.
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Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Pride Stronger
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Destroy Everything Interferred Pleasure
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Being Cause Chemical Earth Empty Ever Face Flow More Name Political Will
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
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Beauty Belong Extraordinary Imagination Ordinary Question Simply Ugliness
The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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All Complete Lot Submissiveness
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Drive Excess Man Out Puty Sensual
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Aesthetic Again Change Choleric Dissolute Everything Extreme Imagination Imperious Irascible Nutshell
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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Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think
Can we become other than what we are?
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Allow Ask Become Desire Other
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing

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