Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADEGod strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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