I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADEYou say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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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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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?
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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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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