Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADEFor the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Can we become other than what we are?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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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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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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