Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
MARQUIS DE SADEChimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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I 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.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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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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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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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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