The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
MARQUIS DE SADEEvery principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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