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!
MARQUIS DE SADEAnd if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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 the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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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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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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