The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADEDeep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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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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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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