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.
MARQUIS DE SADEI want to be the victim of his errors.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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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?
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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