Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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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 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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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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