Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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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.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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