That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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