Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
MARQUIS DE SADEI assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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