There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
MARQUIS DE SADEHere am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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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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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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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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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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