Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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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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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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