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«Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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Creation, destruction, hence, mandate, mandated, mandates
«The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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conclude, concludes, concluding, created, crowding, expound, expounded, expounding, expounds, judge, notions, theologian, theologians, view
«Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.»
«There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.»
«I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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along, none, path, The Path, told, torment, tormenting
«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?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
better half, creatures, decreed, decreeing, flock, good and, mankind, miserable, mud, One half, persecutor, pile, piles, pile up, piling, pronounce, pronouncing, surface, surfaced, surfaces, surface of, The Pile, thrown
«It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that that unfortunate individual called man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses . . .»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
«No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
deny, good faith, lover, mistress, mistresses, prefer, sincere, unfaithful
«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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