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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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