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 SADEI’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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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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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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