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 SADEThe more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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 more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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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