That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADEI assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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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.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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