One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
MARQUIS DE SADENature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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