Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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What is more immoral than war?
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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