Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat is more immoral than war?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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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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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!
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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