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.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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What is more immoral than war?
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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