The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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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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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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