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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.

Marquis de Sade

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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Comfort Disapprove Greatest Happiness Life More Source System
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Act Exclusive Less May never Possession Slave Unjust Woman
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Delight Depend Everything Imagination Mainspring Mean Now Sharp Supr
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
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Cradle Religion
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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Creature Delicate Delight Imagination Moment Out Pleasure Resist Single Whole World
So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Absurd Civilize Consequence Depravity Maintain Cruelty Men Nature Nearer
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
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 is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Ambition Avarice Cruelty Fluid Lend Life Lust Nervous Other Passion Revenge Strength Support Them
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
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
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Complete Every Majority Pop Respect Star
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Between Connection Daith Immediate Understanding
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?
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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