She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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The 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.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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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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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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