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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIn an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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