Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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