The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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