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 SADEWhy do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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