We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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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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