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.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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