According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
MARQUIS DE SADESex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Happiness 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.
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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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