The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
MARQUIS DE SADEI write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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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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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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