Sex without pain is like food without taste
MARQUIS DE SADEConspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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