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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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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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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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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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