If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
MARQUIS DE SADEIn an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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