Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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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.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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