My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
MARQUIS DE SADENow 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?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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