What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
MARQUIS DE SADEMy passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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