My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
MARQUIS DE SADEDon’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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