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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Marquis de Sade

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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Also Everything Frightful Inspiration Libertinage Natural Suggest
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Appaling Bond Devised Discomfort Horror Humankind Loathsome Most
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
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Blush Dangerous Grown Old One Shame
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
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!
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Approve Care Manner Support Think
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.
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Allow Appetite Drink Eat False Important Modesty Ought Restrain Satisfy Sex
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?
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Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
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
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.
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Another Carry Crime Destroy Dread Evacuating Infanticide Kind Medicine Mistress Womb
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
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Drive Excess Man Out Puty Sensual
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Credit Miracle Mountebank Number Require Thing Two Win Women

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