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• Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

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  Two, Voice, Command

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

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• Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!

  Marquis de Sade

  Girl, Progress, Vices

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• The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

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  Happiness, Mean, Joy

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

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• I want to be the victim of his errors.

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  Errors, Want, Victim

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

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• Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

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  Lying, Mean, Men

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

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• 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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  Sacrifice, Men, Sacrificing Everything

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• 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.

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  Sorry, World, Taste

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• The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

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  Happiness, Light, Joy

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

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• 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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  Evil, Half, Littles

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• Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

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  Jesus, Ambition, Tyrants

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

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• 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

  Fashion, People, Evil

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

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• The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

  Marquis de Sade

  Marriage, Degradation, Horror

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

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• It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

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  Government, Skills, Answers

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• Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

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  Country, Passion, Law

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• Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

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  Vices, Firsts, Cruelty

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• Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

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  Hope, Old Wounds, Soul

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• 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.

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  Men, Laughing, Enemy

  marquis de Sade, Richard Seaver (1999). “Letters from Prison”, p.327, Arcade Publishing

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• There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

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  Kind, Worship, Pleasure

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

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• Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

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  Eye, Punishment, Humanity

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.

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  Simple, Law, Age

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• Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

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  Prejudice, Opinion, Sole

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

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• If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

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  Earth, May, Rewards

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• Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

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  Peace, War, Technique

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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.

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  Beautiful, Hate, Men

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• You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

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  People, Ridiculous

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