What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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