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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.

Marquis de Sade

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Change Complain Easily Fate
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
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
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
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Support Think
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Flood Follow Govern Gutter Impulse Primitive Sea Waves
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Fool Man Other Say Suit Think Tolerate
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Become Enemy Expect Laugh Man Necessarily Prejudice Reason Scorn
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Between Connection Daith Immediate Understanding
Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Engimas God Good Just Nighty Supreme Tell Wish
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Desire Greater More Object One Pleasure Surrender Violence
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
MARQUIS DE SADE

Love Pride Stronger
When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Chaos Corruption Disturbance Effect Felt General Moment Probation Single Some

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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