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.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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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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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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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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