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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.

Marquis de Sade

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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Amuse Characteristics Degradation Delight Please Plunge Punuish Stae
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Blade Crunch Endless Guillotine Line Procession See Up Write
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
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
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
Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Altogether Civilization Cruelty Energy Man Simply Vice Virtue
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Acquaint First Know Order Ourselves Virtue
Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Arduous Immediately Painful Service Slightest
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
The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Animal Before Bite Break Canary Emphatically Exist Infant Long Nature Ourselves Reason Savage Stamp
Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
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
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Condemned Debility Design Enjoy Exercise Incoontestably Man More Nature Prove Strength Women Worse
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Desire Greater More Object One Pleasure Surrender Violence
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Pride Stronger

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