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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Marquis de Sade

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Destroy Everything Interferred Pleasure
The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
MARQUIS DE SADE

Beautiful Most Motion Nature Primary Quality
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul
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
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Despite Enlarge Fantasise Interest Man Only Personal Scope Succeed Taste Unfortunate
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
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Amuse Characteristics Degradation Delight Please Plunge Punuish Stae
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Arter Behaviour Figure Harmful Individual Opinion Public State Vice
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Appetite Drink Eat False Important Modesty Ought Restrain Satisfy Sex
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Support Think
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
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Insult Must Nature One Proportion Responsible Sorry Strange Taste Tendency Wrong
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
MARQUIS DE SADE

Beauty Belong Extraordinary Imagination Ordinary Question Simply Ugliness
Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
MARQUIS DE SADE

Before Constitute Create Creature Entity Eternal Evil Exist Hideous Monstrous One Perishable World
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
MARQUIS DE SADE

Love Pride Stronger

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