She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
MARQUIS DE SADECan we become other than what we are?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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There 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.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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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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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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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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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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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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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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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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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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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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