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.
MARQUIS DE SADEMiserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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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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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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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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