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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Marquis de Sade

Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Chocked Crime Imbecile Spare Speak World
What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Pride Stronger
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
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Complete Every Majority Pop Respect Star
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Being Destructive Eternity Law Nature
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
We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Delightful Hundredfold Immolate Multiply New Object Turn World
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
The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Beneath Blood Feel Flow Hell Man Read Young
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
MARQUIS DE SADE

Beauty Belong Extraordinary Imagination Ordinary Question Simply Ugliness
Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
MARQUIS DE SADE

Before Constitute Create Creature Entity Eternal Evil Exist Hideous Monstrous One Perishable World
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Breed Nothing Pleasure
Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Enlarge Individual Law Life Protect Quater Taste Trouble

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