She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
MARQUIS DE SADEBeauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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