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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

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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Aesthetic Again Change Choleric Dissolute Everything Extreme Imagination Imperious Irascible Nutshell
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Cause Misfortune Mode Other Through
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique
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
The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
MARQUIS DE SADE

Beautiful Most Motion Nature Primary Quality
There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense 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
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul
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
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
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Behaviour Boy Good Idea Little Naughty Spank
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
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Balance Indulgence Pan Perfect Rather Routine Sex Symmetry
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Breed Nothing Pleasure
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Application Conflict Contradiction Forge Interest Law Perpetual Personal Universal
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Adopt Food Indeed Manner Other People Poor Suit Think

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