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.
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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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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