How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
MARQUIS DE SADEThe infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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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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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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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.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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