I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADEI’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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