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• She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

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  Spring, Flower, Rose

  marquis de Sade (1963). “De Sade Quartet [four Stories from Cortes Et Fabliaux”

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• 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; 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.

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  Sex, Men, Rights

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• 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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  Men, Imagination, Pleasure

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

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  Happiness, Men, Equality

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.

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  Writing, Men, Blood

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• It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

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  Beauty, Simple, Imagination

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• 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 to suit other people! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so.

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  Thinking, Reflection, Fool

  "Letters from Prison".

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• 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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  Law, Long, Silence

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

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  Pain, Kind, Impression

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? 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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  Sex, Men, Thinking

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.

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• Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

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  Feelings, Capacity

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

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  Beautiful, Quality, Primaries

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• Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

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  Happiness, Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination

  Marquis de Sade (1993). “The Crimes of Love: 3 Novellas”, Bantam Classics

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• Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

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  Simple, Imagination, Ordinary

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Character, Simple

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• Love Is Stronger Than Pride

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  Love, Romantic, Pride

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• Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

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  Men, Sensual, Excess

  Marquis de Sade (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.102, OUP Oxford

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• Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

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  Beautiful, Plot, Add

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• Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.

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  War, Men, Race

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• 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? 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?

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  Law, Punishment, Criminals

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• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

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  Revenge, Passion, Ambition

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• It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

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  Atheist, Silly, Winning

  marquis de Sade (1927). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”

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• The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

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  Mean, Imagination, Joy

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• Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

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  Happiness, Lying, Organization

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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