Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADEI write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Can we become other than what we are?
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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!
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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.
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