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and how can you be happy when you can find satisfaction at any moment? It is not in pleasure that happiness consists, it is in desire – it is in breaking the chains that hold back this desire;
— Marquis de Sade The 120 Days of Sodom
Tags: pleasure, happiness, durcet, desire

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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.
— Marquis de Sade
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
— Marquis de Sade
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
— Marquis de Sade
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
— Marquis de Sade
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
— Marquis de Sade
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