How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
MARQUIS DE SADENever lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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