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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Marquis de Sade

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Assume Entire Everything Flatter Right Satisfy Universe Whim Yield
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Adulteress Girl Incestuous Maidenhead Process Sodomite Stroke Today
I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Destroy Everything Interferred Pleasure
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Contrivance Dimmish Fear Mystery Precaution Protective
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Defect Less Lovable May More Older Resound Success
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Bound Dirtier Dirty Element Give More Pleasurable Pleasure
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

Acquire Every Principle Excercise Experience Judgement Outcome Sense
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
MARQUIS DE SADE

According Arbitrarily Born Class Free Grant Hand Legitimate Lose Men Posses Principle Sex Sight
Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Damage Darken Event Figure Charm Hang Health Husband Mood Pregnancy Uncertainty
If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Barbourous Crime Duplicate Law Make Punish Punishment
I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Along Already Heart Sure Told Torment Woman
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Asleep Effect Find Life Moment Myself Perpetual Should Single
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
MARQUIS DE SADE

God Like Own Shudder Side Son Strung Thank Veal
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
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Animal Before Bite Break Canary Emphatically Exist Infant Long Nature Ourselves Reason Savage Stamp
At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Do Dong Here Image Like Only
Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Arduous Immediately Painful Service Slightest
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
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Abstraction Being Entirely Feel Happiness Imagination Moved Product Spend Way
The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Complete Lot Submissiveness
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
MARQUIS DE SADE

Love Pride Stronger

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