What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe 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?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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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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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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