One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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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.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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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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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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