One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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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 rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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