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?
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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What is more immoral than war?
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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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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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.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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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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