Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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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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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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