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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .

Marquis de Sade

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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All Complete Lot Submissiveness
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
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Command Day Nature Other Two Voice
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
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Beauty Belong Extraordinary Imagination Ordinary Question Simply Ugliness
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Conviction Devil Fragile God Illusory Opposition Presence Reveal Stand
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
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
That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Around Attention Care Every Everything Man Think Torniacate Tyrant Utter Want
Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Abregantion Anticipate Cause Desire Enable Exactness Naught Prompt Recommend
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Aesthetic Again Change Choleric Dissolute Everything Extreme Imagination Imperious Irascible Nutshell
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Adulteress Girl Incestuous Maidenhead Process Sodomite Stroke Today
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
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
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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God Like Own Shudder Side Son Strung Thank Veal
Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique

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