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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

Marquis de Sade

My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Being Contradict Inner Made Reflection Result Think Way Wish
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Apparent Capable Certain Cruel Extreme Feeling Length Rather Seem Soul Strong Unconcern
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Cradle Religion
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Frightful Horror Moreover Nastiness Pleasure Proven
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Defym Care Either Fear Fig God Now Spiteful Thunderbolt
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Change Dammed Either Ever Kill Take
Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Ambition Associate Christ Country Divine Great Jesus People Peron Place Rogues Thought Tyrant
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
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Carry Crime Destroy Dread Evacuating Infanticide Kind Medicine Mistress Womb
What is more immoral than war?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Immortal More War
All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
MARQUIS DE SADE

According Arbitrarily Born Class Free Grant Hand Legitimate Lose Men Posses Principle Sex Sight
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Complete Every Majority Pop Respect Star
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Appaling Bond Devised Discomfort Horror Humankind Loathsome Most
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
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?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Delight Depend Everything Imagination Mainspring Mean Now Sharp Supr
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

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