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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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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Creaturem Thrown Decreed Flock Half Mankind Miserable Moment Mud Pile Prosecutor Surface
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Act Exclusive Less May never Possession Slave Unjust Woman
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Error Victim Want
My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Being Contradict Inner Made Reflection Result Think Way Wish
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Balance Indulgence Pan Perfect Rather Routine Sex Symmetry
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
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Always Another Beautiful Frightful Hate Man Mirror Same See
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Pride Stronger
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
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Accordance Always Imagination Pleasure Regulate Sense

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