Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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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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