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 SADELove Is Stronger Than Pride
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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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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