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The 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.
Marquis de Sade
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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
Novelist
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France
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
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Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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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? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper they are incredibly feeble never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. 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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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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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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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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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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