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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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Inspiration, Law, Conflict

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• It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

  Marquis de Sade

  Atheism, Vices, Opinion

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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?

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Punishment, Criminals

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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?

  Marquis de Sade

  Quiet, Reason, Humans

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

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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?

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Imagination, Joy

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

  Marquis de Sade

  Lying, True Happiness, Virtue

  "The 120 days of Sodom and other writings".

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

  Marquis de Sade

  Atheist, Silly, Winning

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

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• What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions.

  Marquis de Sade

  Running, Order, Law

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

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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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Lying, Organization

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

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• I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

  Marquis de Sade

  Art, Doubt, Might

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

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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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Death, Real, Simple

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

  Marquis de Sade

  Kind, Worship, Pleasure

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

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• Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

  Marquis de Sade

  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 more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Birth Defects, May

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

  Marquis de Sade

  Powerful, Two, Lust

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

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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 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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Light, Joy

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

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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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Hope, Old Wounds, Soul

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

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• Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

  Marquis de Sade

  Enjoyment

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

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• It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

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  Kinky, Literature, Misfortunes Of Others

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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.

  Marquis de Sade

  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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• 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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• What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, 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

  Would Be, Causes, Chaos

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• Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

  Marquis de Sade

  Add, Mystery, Pleasure

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

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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?

  Marquis de Sade

  Wish, Teach, Enigma

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