Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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