Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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 primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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