You 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.
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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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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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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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