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 SADEHow delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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