My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
MARQUIS DE SADEAnd if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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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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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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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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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 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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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