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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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• In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... 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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  Inspiration, Law, Conflict

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• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

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  Peace, War, Order

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• One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

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  Shame, Dangerous

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

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  Lying, True Happiness, Virtue

  "The 120 days of Sodom and other writings".

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• Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

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  Passion, Lust, Demand

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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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• 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 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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• Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

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  Faith, Understanding, Connections

  Marquis de Sade (2016). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”, p.6, BoD – Books on Demand

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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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• Love Is Stronger Than Pride

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  Love, Romantic, Pride

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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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• Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

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  Powerful, Two, Lust

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

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• If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.

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  Death, Real, Simple

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• 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?

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  Wish, Teach, Enigma

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• I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

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  Yield, Whim, Universe

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• Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

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  Fate, Complaining

  Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.15, Oxford Paperbacks

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• 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?

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  Quiet, Reason, Humans

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

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• Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.

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  Believe, Two, Mad

  Marquis de Sade (2016). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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