We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
MARQUIS DE SADEI’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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