My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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