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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Marquis de Sade

In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Also Everything Frightful Inspiration Libertinage Natural Suggest
What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
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
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Act Engage One Sexual Want
There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense Sight
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Insult Must Nature One Proportion Responsible Sorry Strange Taste Tendency Wrong
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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Arter Behaviour Figure Harmful Individual Opinion Public State Vice
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.
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Born Character Courage Enslaving Fear Fellow Fool Formed Get Head Men Nothing Once Philosophy Simple Stoicism Weak Weakness
Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Food Pain Satisfy Sex Taste Without
Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Being Deep Deserve Down Enjoy Gone Such Treat Way
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Frightful Horror Moreover Nastiness Pleasure Proven
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?
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Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Batten Consume Immolate Lamb Strong Upon Victim Weal Wolves
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
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.
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Alter Fool Man Other Say Suit Think Tolerate
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.
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Destructive Directly Energy Feed Nature New None Nothing Outgrace Vigor Weaken Wrecking
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Change Complain Easily Fate
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
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Always Despite Enlarge Fantasise Interest Man Only Personal Scope Succeed Taste Unfortunate
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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Another Carry Crime Destroy Dread Evacuating Infanticide Kind Medicine Mistress Womb
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Corrupt Delicious Heart Religion Semblance Stifie Virtue Young
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
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
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Assemble Concentrated Glass Immediate Magnifying Passion Point Ray Resemble Single Way
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

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