I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADEEven those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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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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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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