Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What is more immoral than war?
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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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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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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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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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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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