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?
MARQUIS DE SADEConversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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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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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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