My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
MARQUIS DE SADEAny enjoyment is weakened when shared.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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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.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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