It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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What is more immoral than war?
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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