I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADEConscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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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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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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