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?
MARQUIS DE SADEHow delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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 have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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