There 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.
MARQUIS DE SADEA poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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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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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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