Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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