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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Marquis de Sade

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Already Delicate Different Flower Lover Nevertheless Pluck Rose Sometimes
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Fool Man Other Suit Think Way
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Adopt Food Indeed Manner Other People Poor Suit Think
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Cause Misfortune Mode Other Through
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Blush Dangerous Grown Old One Shame
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Condemned Debility Design Enjoy Exercise Incoontestably Man More Nature Prove Strength Women Worse
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?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Error Victim Want
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Become Enemy Expect Laugh Man Necessarily Prejudice Reason Scorn
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Say Suppose Think
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
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
What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Barbarous Creator Destructive God Inconsistent Infamous Repent Today World

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