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
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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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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