Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
MARQUIS DE SADESex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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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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