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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

Marquis de Sade

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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
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
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Cruel Discretion Display Employ Force Law Let Long Loud Obliged Opinion Ourselves Privacy Public Remain Silence Some Today
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Do Dong Here Image Like Only
The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Beautiful Most Motion Nature Primary Quality
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Being Destructive Eternity Law Nature
I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Error Victim Want
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Country Crime Criminal Essential Horror Murder Necessary Republican State Tolerate
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Behaviour Boy Good Idea Little Naughty Spank
Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Food Pain Satisfy Sex Taste Without
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Always Despite Enlarge Fantasise Interest Man Only Personal Scope Succeed Taste Unfortunate
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
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Approve Care Manner Say Suppose Think
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Alter Fool Man Other Suit Think Way
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Always Arrive Pain Pleasure Way
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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