Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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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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