When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
MARQUIS DE SADEYou say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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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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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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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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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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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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