There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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