My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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The 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?
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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